WRJ - B&M Yard Office

WRJ B&M yard office 1975 courtesy of  Steve Myers.

There was a post on B&M Facebook recently about the B&M yard office in WRJ. Here are some of the comments about the structure. I had asked a couple of questions...George Dutka

When I worked the 2nd shift operator the yardmaster was a guy named Red ( nick name I guess)conductors would come in to get paper work, Joe Murphy was one who I remember well....Joseph Burnham. Joseph worked there as an operator in 1968.

" 'JS'; the telegrapher's office in the yard office at B&M's New Yard in White River Junction, Vt. If you lived up that way and had a regular job, it was a pretty good place to work. But for a Fitchburg Division spare operator, it was the end of the world." -- Alden Dreyer.  John Alan Roderick 

This one had been a residence, the whole railroad yard had been a farmers field from what the old timers I worked with at WR Jct told me, the railroad saved the house, moved it there and used it as the yard office. Operaters left here and moved to the station in the early 70's I believe. The old "bull pen" yard office was in use to the mid 70's and then as operations slowed the yard clerks moved to the station with the operators. One of the fellows I worked with Harry Johnson's father was killed one winter going in to the yard office. Snowy winter, high snow banks, the southbound passenger train went by before he got to work but on this day the train (the Flying Yankee /Tin Fish) was late, he walked through the opening in the snow bank and right in front of the passenger train. Someday would like to find the accident report or the local newspaper account of the accident...Bruce Penttinen

Courtesy of Steve Myers.