. Railway age gazette . d. C. T. Ripley has been appointed general mechanical inspectorof the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. succeeding J. L. Armstrong,promoted. E. C. S.\ssER has been appointed superintendent of motivepower of the Northern and Eastern districts of the SouthernRailway, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. Mr. Sasser was born on November16, 1875. in Wake county,N. C, and was educatedat Holden Academy. Ra-leigh. He began rail-way work at the age of16 in the shops of theRaleigh & Gaston, now apart of the Seaboard AirLine, as machinists ap-prentice at Raleigh, andat the completion
. Railway age gazette . d. C. T. Ripley has been appointed general mechanical inspectorof the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. succeeding J. L. Armstrong,promoted. E. C. S.\ssER has been appointed superintendent of motivepower of the Northern and Eastern districts of the SouthernRailway, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. Mr. Sasser was born on November16, 1875. in Wake county,N. C, and was educatedat Holden Academy. Ra-leigh. He began rail-way work at the age of16 in the shops of theRaleigh & Gaston, now apart of the Seaboard AirLine, as machinists ap-prentice at Raleigh, andat the completion of hisapprenticeship enteredthe service of the South-ern Railway at Alex-andria, Va., and wasthen consecutively ma-chinist, machine shopforeman and generalforeman. In 1898 he re-turned to Raleigh andentered the service ofthe Lobdell Car WheelManufacturing Company. The following year he went to theSeaboard Air Line at Raleigh, leaving that company in May,1901, to become superintendent of the .\cme Machine Works,. E. C. Sasser Goldsboro, N. C. He went tii the Southern Railway in May,1902, as erecting shop foreman at Columbia, S. C, and was pro-moted to general foreman in August of the same year. Thefollowing October he left that company to enter the service ofthe American Locomotive Company at the Richmond branchas equipinent inspector. The following year he was promotedto general machine shop foreman, and in March. 1905, left thatcompany to return to the service of the Southern Railway asshop superintendent. He was promoted to master mechanicof the Charleston shops in May, 1908, and in October of thefollowing year was transferred in the same capacity to theAlexandria shops. He was again transferred in May, 1910, asmaster mechanic of the Spencer, N. C, shops, which positionhe held at the time of his recent appointment as superintendentof motive power of the same road, as above noted. MASTER MECHANICS AND ROAD FOREMEN OFENGINES Hugh Gallagher, master mechanic of the Atchison, Top
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