/internal/media/dispatcher/10103/fullThe Union Terminal Company Operating Rules booklet08/01/19476 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (17.1 x 10.5 cm)PaperGene D. Veal Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2003.023.00010Small, 40-page booklet with brown cover. Printed on the cover in black: "No. 136, The Union Terminal Company, Dallas, Texas. Operating Rules. Effective August 1, 1947." Contains both instructions and illustrations in addition to a pull out map entitled, "Track Diagram of The Union Terminal." Hand-written notations appear on the pages of text and on the fly-leaf in pen and ink. There is some fraying along the booklet's spine.
First page has signs that liquid was spilled on it in the past. Also written by hand on the first page are the initials "JCS" and the date, "May 17-1950."
Gene Veal worked as a switch tower operator from 1952 to 1989, including in tower 106 (located in the rail yard north of the Texas School Book Depository). This is the handbook he would have been given at the time he was hired. On the fold-out map in the book, the tower that is in the rail yard of the Texas School Book Depository is marked as, “Tower Number 2,” which is different from Stephen’s recollection of the name of the tower from Gene Veal (106). (S.F. 1-19-12)
The tower that is in the rail yard of the Texas School Book Depository is marked as "Tower Number 1" on the fold out map. (G.M. 2-1-12)Books6404210.490200000017.145000000022629Booklet40-page booklet titled "No. 136, The Union Terminal Company, Dallas, Texas. Operating Rules. Effective August 1, 1947." The booklet contains both instructions and illustrations in addition to a pull-out map entitled, "Track Diagram of The Union Terminal." Hand-written notations appear on the pages of text and on the fly-leaf in pen and ink.
Written by hand on the first page are the initials "JCS" and the date, "May 17-1950."Tower 106RailyardRailroad switching towerUnion Terminal Co.DallasThe donor of this booklet, Gene Veal, was a railroad switching tower operator from 1952 to 1989. Veal worked in several towers including the tower located in the parking lot of the Texas School Book Depository building, where his friend, tower operator Lee Bowers, was working at the time of the Kennedy assassination. In oral history interviews recorded in 2001 and 2003, Veal referred to this structure as "Tower 106," but it is also commonly identified -- such as in the fold-out map found in this booklet -- as "Tower Number 2." Gene Veal received this operating rules book upon his hiring in 1952. - Stephen Fagin, Curator