. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Engineering, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, died September 2, 1921, ;iithe age of sixty years. Mr. Rushton wasborn in Philadelphia, Pa., and was educatedin the city schools and Episcopal Academ\.He served an apprenticeship, as machini^ Hugo Bilgram, of Philadelphia, an(iafterward entered the employ of The Bald-win Locomotive Works, in April, Rushtons association with The Baldwin Locomotive Works continued uninter-ruptedly until the time of his death; firstas a draftsman, and la
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Engineering, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, died September 2, 1921, ;iithe age of sixty years. Mr. Rushton wasborn in Philadelphia, Pa., and was educatedin the city schools and Episcopal Academ\.He served an apprenticeship, as machini^ Hugo Bilgram, of Philadelphia, an(iafterward entered the employ of The Bald-win Locomotive Works, in April, Rushtons association with The Baldwin Locomotive Works continued uninter-ruptedly until the time of his death; firstas a draftsman, and later as designer,chief mechanical engineer, and finally asvice-president. He was the inventor ofmany appliances used in the constructionof locomotives, and was closely associatedwith S. M. Vauclain in the developmentof the four-cylinder compound that bearsthe name of the latter. While Mr. Rush-ton did not travel extensively in the prose-cution of his business, he representedBaldwins abroad in some important mis-sions. In 1913. he was sent to Chile, visit-ing varieius points of rnilrond interest on. KENNETH RUSHTON the west coast of South America, and in1918, went to France, in connection withthe design of railway transport for artil-lery. Mr. Rushton became a member ofthe American Society of Mechanical En-gineers, in 1920, and served nn the Loco- Edward Armstrong CraigEdward A. Craig, ^er of the Ex-port Department of the Westinghouse Air
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