Arizona republican., 1913-04-14
BIG SHIPMENT OF 1913
 FORD CARS ON ONE TRAIN
Four Hundred and Twenty Leave Detroit in One Great Load
 How It Happened

Look pleasant please" believed the man with the camera. A clank
 ing of expectancy ran through the couplings while the air through the line hissed for silence
 The camera man was taking the
 picture of one of the largest ship inents Of automobiles ever hauled in one trainload. There were sixty freight cars some arrogant regula-
 tion auto cars, others just ordinary hard working box cars and here and there were those rakish looking non- descripts with tops slightly aWry. the Weary Willies of the road From the eight powerful drivers Of the big road engine to the red
 and green tail lights at the way cars end there was an air of con SclOus importance. The train. pull
 ing 420 Fords from the Detroit fac tory to Minor, N. D.. was about to l set a record and even the brake shoes knew it and were resolved to uo their duty.
 When a train feels as this train
 the service it is about to perform 'h't II HeNt il5 pitluic ldNcA' Look pleasant, please did not come from the camera man. how ever, until many difficulties had been overcome, for getting the picture of Q train under certain circumstances. in the midst of an equinoXial storm for instance. is sometimes more ticklish job than photographing Young Hopeful" aged four months. To begin with there must be banner made to decorate the side of each freight car. True, for the camera mans purpose it only needs
 one banner on one car for he re- touches this decoration on the rest as easily as he can put more hairs in your eyebrows when occasion de- mands
 The train was resting on siding about mile and half from any
 where. primping itself for the ordeal. when the camera man and the ban ner started with an automobile to find it When they arrived the en- zine and caboose had deserted it and would not be back till the fol ! lowing day.
 The next day March 21; the wind
 
 had to leave that day. it must sit for it's picture then or not at all. There was a delay in getting the 1 engine and CaboOSe to the siding. After much pulling and tugging 1 against the gale the forty foot ban | ncr was securely tackled to the side
 Of big Northwestern car when Whiff, puff, ,-zipp! the wind caught 1 t and tore it into a thousand shreds.
 A second attempt with second ban
 ner was more successful But there | was no engine and caboose.
 A ride five miles on a switching 1 engine. numerous calls by telephone 1 from smoky shack serving as yard | headquarters return trip with the ! big road engine and caboose were l necessary before the work could go l on.
 Then the camera man from i distance of something less than fifty miles aWay-he had to get back near 1 ly sthat far to get proper perspective climbed into the rear of his ma ! chine that swayed in the wind. called | 10 the distant train to look at the ] little bird just above his camera. got | out of the cameras insdes. jerked the Tapping shroud from his shoul-
 ders looked oWlish. pulled a little 1 jigger at the side and it was over
 The train felt SO good it giggied,
 sending succession of brr umpS
 down it's length.
 | Two days after. the camera man 1 brought the photograph of the train l to be viewed and it was just one 1 hundred inches long