James B. Martin, 1975 April 9

James B. Martin was the manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad dining car and commissary department, 1957-1966. In this interview, he discusses: E. V. Baugh; Marshall Field; the company publicity train in 19351- traveling with President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II; Winston Churchill as a passenger; the Roosevelt family; Charles Schwab; J. Pierpont Morgan; serving Naval Academy students on football trips; five prominent people who first worked as dining car waiters and stewards; discrimination; the policy of superior meals for low prices; changes during the Depression; causes for decline of railroad passenger service; the "seventeen-mile grade"; serving West Point Cadets on Presidential Inauguration Day.