. Electric railway journal . actors for a portion of the Amster-dam Avenue and Madison Avenue conduit lines in that was also engaged in 1898 on the construction of theHuntington (L. I.) Railroad, controlled by the Long IslandRailroad, for which the Nassau Construction Company hadthe general contract. Mr. von Culin entered the service ofthe Capital Traction Company in December, 1898, and forseveral years thereafter was with the engineering depart-ment of that company. He has since been in the operatingdepartment. February 5, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 293 Mr. John M. Egan, who went
. Electric railway journal . actors for a portion of the Amster-dam Avenue and Madison Avenue conduit lines in that was also engaged in 1898 on the construction of theHuntington (L. I.) Railroad, controlled by the Long IslandRailroad, for which the Nassau Construction Company hadthe general contract. Mr. von Culin entered the service ofthe Capital Traction Company in December, 1898, and forseveral years thereafter was with the engineering depart-ment of that company. He has since been in the operatingdepartment. February 5, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 293 Mr. John M. Egan, who went to Kansas City in February,1910, to manage the rehabilitation of the street railways, ex-pecting to remain three years, has tendered his resignationas president of the various companies and as generalmanager of the Metropoli-tan Street Railway, effec-tive on Feb. 11, when thecompanies will go out ofexistence, and the KansasCity Railways will takecharge of the property. is sixty-nine yearsold. He will retire, at least. temporarily, from active work. Mr. Egan was born in Springfield, Mass. His H V jJH father was associated with ^HUfl the group of men who went Wk West in 18-S1 and became IMI the officials of the Illinois Central Railroad. Mr. John J. M. EGAN M. Egan served as appren-tice in a machine shop of the railroad at Amboy for morethan three years and then went into the superintendentsoffice. After serving in various other capacities with thecompany, he became connected with the division engineersoffice of the Illinois Central, until the division engineers ap-pointment as chief engineer of the old Northern MissouriRailroad, at St. Louis, Mr. Egan going with him as chiefclerk. Mr. Egan was promoted to assistant division engi-neer, division engineer and assistant chief engineer. Thesuperintendent of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern,the successor to the Northern Missouri Railroad, was Will-iam Van Horn, who later became Sir William Van Horn,under whom Mr. Egan ser
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