Original vintage broadcasting trade magazine ad for ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS of Washington, DC.  A Report To The Public.  The results of the first year of operating freight and yard diesel locomotives without firemen:  The men have landed on their feet.  The railroads' safety record has been maintained or improved.  The Firemen have been protected.  There were 34,235 firemen working in freight and yard service when the Arbitration Award went into effect.  Today there are about 21,000.  More than 90 percent have been given other jobs on the railroads or have taken some of the biggest severance allowances ever made in American industry.  Old 1965 railroad industry advertisement.