Bright Young Men Make Money For B& 0 By Efficiency Campaign
(Fourth of Five Articles )
By RAY CKOMLEY
BALTIMORE (XEAl Jems
Lanadon Jr.. president of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, works
In a big room reminiscent of an
old-fashioned parlor. There are or
derly stacks of paper, notes, fold
ers and documents all over s
large table behind him, on the
desk in front of him and n
neat piles on the floor around him
LaiiKUun is one of the most
coolly efficient, analytical, deter
mined men in the business. Yet I
rode up to his office in a creak
rlevatur that did not stop pre
cisely where it was supposed to.
Where Bill Brosnan of the
Southern rams through and builds
sensational new equipment, the
money-short Langdon organizes to;
get the last ounce of efficiency out
I of the men and equipment he has.
Langdon studies his managers.
I his white and blue collar men to
see if each isn't capable nf doing
j a little bigger job than he's do-
' MR. He looks tor bright young
j men who tan do a little bit more
, '. than other men. He looks to see if
he can get more use out of each
car and if he can combine trains
for part of their runs so they'll re
"ouire fewer men.
: To do these things he has
changed his hiring and promotion
policies and is changing a major
part of his top organizational setup.
I know Langdon's organizational
ability from personal experience.
In World War II. he had a job I
to do in making order out of the
impossibly chaotic problem of get
ting enough gasoline, bombs and
supplies all by air over the Hump
from India so Maj. Gen. Claire
ChciinauU and his patched up
Flying Tigers could hold off the
Japanese air force in China. I
. Was one of the men. at the end of
the line depending on Langdon.
He did a magnificent job.
1 Less than two years ago, Lang
don took over a railroad on the
verge of bankruptcy. It lost $11
million in 19fil. This year the B.
and 0. will be comfortably in the
black.
. Two years ago. B. and 0. pas
senger runs lost $8 million a year.
In 1D63. the B. and 0. may become
the first Eastern railroad to make
money on its passenger service.
Langdon systematically went
through the passenger operation.
He found he could save $800,000 a
year by hacking his passenger
trains into Chicago instead of
heading them in. He found he
could save a considerable sum by
dropping a fistful of idle passen
ger representatives in New York,
Washington and other major cit
ies. He dropped unprofitable pas
senger runs, but aims at develop
ing a plush service for the runs he
has left.
Langdon is working on the idea
)f super freight trains that would
cany 23,000 tons of freight as con
trasted with his 9.000-ton capacity
trains today. This would mean big
savings in train crew payrolls; he
would have lwo-and-a-h" (rains
in one.
Langdon already has speeded
freight runs and eliminated cost
ly yards by setting up his trains
so that they'll drop freight cars
grades and shortening main lines. jquently by developing a system
He's clearing tunnels so they'll
take the profitable -three-level au
tomobile carrier and other modern
freig.it loads.
Langdon found he could stretch
along the way w ithout having to his equipment further and use the
slop and regroup. He's cuttingjsame cars over again mure fre-
4-H NEWS
LANGELL VALLEY CHAMPS
; The fourth meeting of the Lan
Bell Valley Chomps was held
Jrfai-ch 31.
. He discussed our community
project.
; Two reports were given. Betty
Landon gave one on the feed for
our lambs and Linda Fcrnlund
gave one on proper health habits
,' Mr. Landon then talked about
feeding our lambs.
Linda Fernlund,
' News Reporter
f COUNTRY KNITTERS
Attending the eighth meeting of
the Country Knitters was Bev
erly Bower, 4-H agent. She gave
a ery fine program on good
Brooming. Booklets were handed
out concerning regular diets and
everything connected with groom
ing. Everyone enjoyed the pro
gram and wishes to thank her.
( The club also wishes to thank
the Merrill Beef Club for the
movie. Everyone attending en
Joyed it very much. The Suty
(jirls served refreshments,
i The next meeting will be on
April 15 at the Community Hall.
Nine members and one visi
tor were present. Mrs. Edwin
Stastny was a visitor.
Linda Stastny,
News Reporter.
lUW'll. 4HIU.HIM
iMtiniiiymiMmi
t rrr?r-- - - .. ..ws
(or continuous unloading of coal
trains without their having to slop.
Such a system was so much
cheaper that he could cut his
rates and get more business.
Langdon's B. and 0., like many
roads, has been starving for capi
tal to make improvements and
buy new equipment. He says:
In the 12 months ended Aug.
31, l'JBI. we had 13.000 cars,
over 1.0(H) cars a month, go bad
because funds to repair them were
unavailable. We had a real short
age of locomotives. '
Langdon s solution was to join
with the richer Chesapeake and
Ohio Hailwav. which has the mon
ey to pav for many of the im
provements Langdon wants. The
ICC approved tins joining: the Ad
ministration is now trying to de-
lav it tor a new look at all mer
gers,
Langdon s approach to railroad
ing resulted m an unorthodox per
sonnel recruitment program
Aides argued with him, but in a
new booklet aimed at attracting
college r.icr. Us jviu the B. and
0., Langdon insisted on the sentence:
If your one goal is security,
you should look elsewhere."
Langdon bluntly emphasizes to
prospective employes the tough
changes and rugged challenges the
B. and O. laces in the years
ahead. He pins his faith on the
kind of bright, determined and
tenacious young men he thinks
this approach will attract. His
general superintendent of trans
portation is 3ti. Six of his superin
tendents are under 40.
Langdon has built up a develop
ment committee, 10 young men
specially selected from various de
partments, wuo run a continuous
study of operating methods to fin:
better ways of doing things. He
is revamping his accounting and
building up a rate department
with young men who will stand
off and take hard, untraditional
looks at B. and O. rates.
The B. and O. president hopes
that within 10 years his young
men will be running the line and
tradition will be out with the wind.
What bothers Langdon even
more than tradition is unused
brain power. He found featherbed
ding on tlie highest levels of the
B. and O. when he took over.
Some bright management men
had only four hours' worth of real
work to do a day. He gave these
men extra jobs, used them to
develop some of his new ideas
A friend of mine tells of going
in to one of Langdon's major of
fices about the time tlie B. and
0. skipper took over. The office
was crowded with officials, as
sistants, clerks' and secretaries.
He visited the same office about a
year later. The same manager
w as there doing the same job, but
he was almost alone.
(Next: Commuting the Head
ache and Some Pain Killers.)
HERALD AM) NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon
Thursday, April 23, 13
PAGE 7 A
HARD WORK Getting the most from men and equipment is the Langdon formula.
At top is one of the B&O unit trains which run as many as 120 cars carrying 9,000
tons of coal. At bottom is the line s Development Committee of specially selected
young executives who conduct a continuing study of operating methods.
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NEGRO STUDENT HONORED PRESIDENT GUIDES GROUP
ATHENS. Ga. (UPD -Hamil-
ton Holmes, one of the fust
Negroes admitted to the Univer
sity of Georgia, has been elected
to the Phi Beta Kappa honorary
society.
The university announced Wed
nesday that the pro-medical stu
dent's high academic standing
made him eligible for the honor.
Holmes was admitted to the uni
versity under court order in Jan
uary, 1961.
WASHINGTON J L'PI Presi
dent Kennedy, acting as his own
White House guide. Wednesday
took a group of 32 labor leaders
on a tour of the executive man
sion s private living quarters.
The sixth meeting of the Musi
cal Machines was held after
school. Our leader, Mrs. Hayes,
picked us up after school and
took us to Klamath Falls where
we went to Dnnnie's Yardage
Shoo. She showed us how to
make belts, make gifts, and slip
pers and also gave us some very
interesting information about
making garments.
Marlene Moore
News Reporter
SEWING SISTERS
On March 27 the Sewing Sis
ters held a meeting at the
home of Mrs. Ronald Kirkpatrick.
The girls signed up for a dem
onstration to he given at the re
maining meetings.
A taffvnull was planned (or
April 12. 19M, at the home of
Peggy Styees. ' She and Pcgeen
Fitzpatrick are in charge ol the
party. .
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