Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14758617771)

Identifier: baltimoreohioemp05balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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l traveling passenger agent, andDecember 15,1896, waspromoted to assist-ant general passenger agent; October 1,1897, general passenger agent of the Balti-more and Ohio Southwestern; September1, 1911, passenger traffic manager of theBaltimore and Ohio at Baltimore; Octo-ber 1, 1916, passenger traffic manager ofthe Baltimore and Ohio System. A signal honor was tendered him lastOctober when he was elected presidentof the American Association of PassengerTraffic Officers at St. Louis, in recognitionof his wide experience and excellent judg-ment in general passenger traffic affairs. W. B. Calloway W. B. Calloway in all probability isthe youngest passenger traffic managerin the United States. He first enteredthe railway field through the freight claimdepartment of the Big Four at Cincinnatiin 1891, transferring his allegiance to thepassenger department a short time lateron the same road, holding various posi-tions until 1898, when he took service inthe rate and division department of the 37
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THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 39 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, andlater became its advertising manager. Inthe next few years Mr. Calloway wasassistant general passenger agent of theCincinnati, Richmond & Muncie, andgeneral passenger agent of the Chicago,Cincinnati & Louisville, remainingthrough the vicissitudes of these linesuntil they were merged into the Cincin-nati, Hamilton & Dayton, which wasabsorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio, tofind him general passenger agent of thecombination, at Cincinnati in 1911. Nexthe was called to Baltimore in October,1916, as general passenger agent of theeastern lines. The mantle of generaldirection of the passenger traffic of theSystem now falls to him. W. E. Lowes W. E. Lowes has had his training invarious branches of the railway service,starting as call boy and messenger in thesuperintendents office of the Indianapolis& Vincennes, now part of the PennsylvaniaLines, from which he evolved into a tele-graph operator and