This cat, named Tama, is a stationmaster at the Kishi Station on the Wakayama Electric Railway in Japan.The station went unmanned in April 2006 as the line was losing money. But Tama stuck around.
She rose to national stardom in January 2007 as the railway company formally appointed her as "stationmaster".
Her appointment had an immediately positive effect, boosting the number of passengers using the line in January by 17 percent from a year earlier.
For the year to March 2007, the number of passengers rose to 2.1 million, up 10 percent from the previous 12 months, according to Yamaki.
Happy with her successful job as stationmaster, the company promoted Tama to "super-stationmaster" in January this year, making her "the only female in a managerial position" in the company's 36-strong workforce.
Judging by some of the CTA personel I've encountered, they might be better off with a cat. A litterbox & some catfood is definitely cheap... This could help out the CTA's money crunch!
