Puzzle #1004 - Solved! W.P. Chrysler, workin' on the Railroad.

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what he is?

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[pieter]

Is that a certain mr A Hitler? (The moustache makes me think so.) If so, his future occupations (no pun intended) would include the mastermind behind the Kraft durch Freude motor vehicle.

[Otto Puzzell]

No, not Hitler. (I think that is shadow below his nose.)

[Ray B.]

I'd have said Chico Marx, future entertainer. But if I see a relation between Chico and Hitler, I see none between him and cars.

[Otto Puzzell]

Today, this person is best-remembered for his contributions to the automotive industry. As far as I know, he was never a vaudevillian, nor the principal of the National Socialist German Workers Party. 

[Otto Puzzell]

[Otto Puzzell]

Pros?

[Otto Puzzell]

C'mon - this guy was very well known.

[Ray B.]

Dustin Hoffman?

[Otto Puzzell]

No, not him...

Besides driving a Buick and and Alfa in a couple of movies, what were Mr. Hoffman's contributions to the automotive industry?

[Ray B.]

Besides driving a Buick

"I'm an excellent driver", I still can hear him say that.

No contribution at all I guess. It was just the sound of me thinking aloud.

[neilshouse]

A guess... Henry Ford?

[Otto Puzzell]

Nope, not Henry.

[neilshouse]

Or maybe Walter Chrysler?

[Otto Puzzell]

Winna winna, chicken dinna!

Chrysler apprenticed in the railroad shops at Ellis, Kansas, as a machinist and railroad mechanic. He then spent a period of years roaming the west, working for various railroads as a roundhouse mechanic with a reputation of being good at valve-setting jobs. Some of his moves were due to restlessness and a too-quick temper, but his roaming was also a way to become more well-rounded in his railroading knowledge. He worked his way up through positions such as foreman, superintendent, division master mechanic, and general master mechanic.

From 1905-1906, Chrysler worked for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in Childress, a West Texas city considered the "Gateway to the Texas Panhandle." He later lived and worked in Oelwein, Iowa, where there is a small park dedicated to him.

The pinnacle of his railroading career came at Pittsburgh, where he became works manager of the Allegheny locomotive erecting shops of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).