Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-03-10
SANTA FE DIVIDED
INTO TH|RTY.0NE
DEPARTMENTS
Something About the Complex
and Yet Simple Organization
of a Great Railway System
Cooperation Needed,

In Teamwork" editorial on the
organization of the Santa Fe system
the current number of the Employees
Magazine" has the following:
Into how many departments of la
Dor and commerce is a railroad di-
vided? Did you ever think of il that
way. or have YOU thought that there
may be two or three, or perhaps four.
departments, but that the one in
which YOU are engaged is the one IN
be most considered If you have
ever had such thought. or Il YOU
do not fully realize the number of
departments and divisions and subdi-
visions, YOU will be surprised when
your attention is called to the fact
that the Santa Fe is divided into
thirty-one distinct departments, as
4 follows
Accounting, advertising. baggage,
bridge and building. claims. colonial
/ ton. engineering. executive. freight
] fuel oil industrial. land. law. live
stock, mail. mechanical-car, mechan-
lcal-locomotive. passenger purchas-
ing. refrigerator, stationery statis-
tical, store. telegraph, tie and timber
time inspection, track. transportation
treasury, water service. water treat
4 ins.
/ You will note that the various de-
partments are arranged alphabetic-
ally, so that no particular department
can feel that it takes precedence over
/ any other, We all like to feel that
the department of which we are men,
1 bers is the most important one, and
I this feeling is very commendable, but
there is a time when we must forget
our department and remember only
the good of the service
I The twO-page organization chart
| published in the first issue Of our
magazine shows the relation of these
departments to each other and to the
whole. The Railroad Gazette in re-
/ producing this chart and, comparing
/ it with the organiza lions of the Penn
/ sylvania and the Rock Island, stated
that it was the most strongly depart
mental of the three. But no matter
how strong a departmental organza-
ton we may have unless all depart
ments work in harmony the Organiza
tion is weakened and made ineffect-
ual. On every hand we see this blend
ing of one department with another
the freight with the passenger, the
mechanical with the transportation,
the TRANSFORMATION with the freight,
and so on. and though we all struggle
for efficiency in our respective de-
partments. when we unite for the
good of the service we have that
"teamwork" by which alone we can
attain the desired results.
So much for departmental coop
Grafton. How about individual? How
would it be if the engineer and fire
man did not work together for the
accomplishment of their purpose
getting the train over the road--or if
/ the conductors and trainmen. or the
! dispatcher and roundhouse foreman,
/ did not work in complete harmony?
/ These men have become so acCus-
toned to teamwork that they perform
| 1t daily as matter of course. But
/ boys. if you have a chance to help an
/ employe Of another department, do
! so. We read so much these days of
the dreadful things that politicians
and newspapers are going to do to
us that we owe ii to ourselves to
stand by each other. to stand by our
/ departments, and to stand by the
road Let us, therefore, strive to do
so and see what teamwork" will ac-
complish.
Then, again, we have a condition
peculiarly our own-the grand divs-
ions: Eastern grand, western grand,
coast lines. gulf lines, PeCOs valley
lines and the $. f., =. & r., each with
its own departments and subdivisions.
It is frequently necessary for even
these, powerful as they are in them
selves. to set aside their separate
Identities and cooperate for the gem
eral good--for the AtGhson, Topeka
e Santa FC railway system.
Let us. then as individuals as de-