Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 37, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 July 1944 — Youngsters Learn Railroading [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Youngsters Learn Railroading

Sixteen and seventeen-year-old boys are being used to augment the railroads* depleted operating force. A speed-up system that teaches in a brief period of 19 days all that a youngster needs to know to become a useful switchman, fireman, brakeman or flagman, is proving effective. Half of day is spent in school, half in actual work.