. American engineer . s educated in thehigh school of his nativetown. He began railwaywork in 1868 as a loco-motive fireman on theSelma, Rome & a part of the South-ern, and from 1871 to1885 was locomotive en-gineman on the sameroad. He was subse-cuently master mechanicof the Annison & Atlan-tic, and then until Janu-; ry, 1892, was master oftransportation and mas-ter mechanic of the sameroad and of the Annistoii&; Cincinnati. Both ofthese roads are now apart of the Louisville &Nashvdle. In January. 1892, he was appointed master me-chanic of the Louisville division of the Louisville &
. American engineer . s educated in thehigh school of his nativetown. He began railwaywork in 1868 as a loco-motive fireman on theSelma, Rome & a part of the South-ern, and from 1871 to1885 was locomotive en-gineman on the sameroad. He was subse-cuently master mechanicof the Annison & Atlan-tic, and then until Janu-; ry, 1892, was master oftransportation and mas-ter mechanic of the sameroad and of the Annistoii&; Cincinnati. Both ofthese roads are now apart of the Louisville &Nashvdle. In January. 1892, he was appointed master me-chanic of the Louisville division of the Louisville & Nashville,and in October, 1901, went to the Georgia Railroad as assistantmaster mechanic, which position he held at the time of his re-cent appointment as master mechanic of the same road, asabove noted. CAR DEPARTMENTE. L. Beshler has been appointed car foreman of the .Atchi-son, Topeka & Santa Fe at Cleburne, Tex., succeeding G. C. Cox. A. CoPONY has been apiiointed master car builder of the. Walter Western lines of the Grand Trunk, with headquarters at PortHuron, Mich., succeeding J. L. Hodgson. John L. Hodgson, master car builder of the Grand Trunk atPort Huron, Mich., has been appointed superintendent of the cardepartment of the Grand Trunk Pacific, with headquarters atTranscona, Man. He was born in 1858 at Simcoe, Ont., andentered the service of the Grand Trunk at Brantford, Ont. In1884 he was transferred to Toronto, as car foreman, and since1897 has been master car builder of the same road at PortHuron. T. W. Kendall has been appointed car foreman of the Atchi-son, Topeka & Santa Fe at Newton, Kan., succeeding G. , promoted. W. E. Patterson has been appointed foreman of the car de-partment of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at Cleburne, Tex.,succeeding G. S. Weiler, promoted. James Reed has been appointed assistant division master carbuilder of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern at Englcwood,111., succeeding George Thomson, promoted. R. W. ScHULZE, w
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