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These are things I never knew.  I was a detective in Muncie, Ind on yhe Cloverleaf and Ft. Wayne Div of the Nickle Plate and later the N&W.  My Boss was in Buffalo, NY  When we traveled it was by car or rail.  When we worked wrecks, The Holiday Inn was the best we could do..  



Paul Bredwell 
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Does anyone have history of N&W police during and after the merger with the Nickel Plate RR in the early 1960's? Paul Bredwell Paul: Somehow I forgot to tell you about Raymond M. Gillespie. Never knew him, but his brother was a yardmaster and trainmaster at St. Louis. He was a Wabash man and after the merger he became Chief Special Agent in Roanoke. When Mr. Fishwick took over, he put a stop to frivilous travel by establishing a travel burean (two men). So if you had to attend a symposium in Syracuse or a seminar in Seattle, you submitted a travel request and the travel bureau made arrangements -- no more 1st class air travel, no five star hotels. No one suffered. One practice of the travel bureau was to route N &W travelers to the midwest via N&W No.3 to Cincinnati, where they taxied to the airport for Chicago, St. Louis, etc. Gillespie was en route to Chicago. On arrival at the airport, he found he could catch an earlier flight and changed his reser- vation. The plane he was on went down near Indianapolis. Harry Bundy 



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Does anyone have history of N&W police during and after the merger with the Nickel Plate RR in the early 1960's? Paul Bredwell Paul: Somehow I forgot to tell you about Raymond M. Gillespie. Never knew him, but his brother was a yardmaster and trainmaster at St. Louis. He was a Wabash man and after the merger he became Chief Special Agent in Roanoke. When Mr. Fishwick took over, he put a stop to frivilous travel by establishing a travel burean (two men). So if you had to attend a symposium in Syracuse or a seminar in Seattle, you submitted a travel request and the travel bureau made arrangements -- no more 1st class air travel, no five star hotels. No one suffered. One practice of the travel bureau was to route N &W travelers to the midwest via N&W No.3 to Cincinnati, where they taxied to the airport for Chicago, St. Louis, etc. Gillespie was en route to Chicago. On arrival at the airport, he found he could catch an earlier flight and changed his reser- vation. The plane he was on went down near Indianapolis. Harry Bundy 
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