The Real Railroaders.

A real railroader is more than a jobholder.

He works on a railroad because he loves it, because there is something about it which thrills him and lures him.

He never loses the joy of watching a speeding train screaming into the sunset, with its power and its rush and thunder, its hint of far places, its battle against distance and the elements.

To him there is a deeply human element about that vast, thunderous, vibrant machine called a railroad—something to cherish, to foster, to work for and fight for and consider always in its every element of welfare.

Those men soon began to stand forth unwilling to take the easy course of the yes-man, but eager to exert initiative and to battle sincerely for constructive principles.

For the true railroad man there is so much to be done that there are not enough days in the year, not enough years in a lifetime, for him to accomplish everything he wants to do. He is as much a pioneer as anyone who ever discovered new country; the urge onward is ceaseless, and that is what makes life worth while.—Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways, in the New York “Saturday Evening Post.”