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His decapitated body, found by a trackwalker, was thought to have been struck by a train.

But on the way to the station, the trackwalker got to thinking.

Making the rounds of the dark, thunderous subway tunnels under Manhattan's Time Square one afternoon last week, a trackwalker was startled by the sight of a small boy lashed by wire to a steel stanchion.

The glib, confidential voice that made this announcement was that of Arthur Hale, a Manhattan newscaster who in his 43 years has been doughboy, claim agent, insurance man, trackwalker and radio pianist, but never a reporter.

Last week was one of high exuberance for everyone connected with Union Pacific Railroad�from Chairman William Averell Harriman and President Carl Raymond Gray down to Jose the trackwalker.