. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . intendent of motive i)ower. .Mr. II. I. Ball, superintendent of mo-tive power of the Lake Shore & MichiganCiutral, at Cleveland, Ohio, has beenelected first vice-president of the AmericanRailway Master Mechanics Associationat the June convention. He entered rail-way service as an apprentice in the shopand in the drawing oflice on the Pennsyl- MK. IKTKK H. IlCCK. ident of the American Railway MasterMechanics Association. Mr. Peck washorn at Decatur, 111., and began his careerin the shops and a


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . intendent of motive i)ower. .Mr. II. I. Ball, superintendent of mo-tive power of the Lake Shore & MichiganCiutral, at Cleveland, Ohio, has beenelected first vice-president of the AmericanRailway Master Mechanics Associationat the June convention. He entered rail-way service as an apprentice in the shopand in the drawing oflice on the Pennsyl- MK. IKTKK H. IlCCK. ident of the American Railway MasterMechanics Association. Mr. Peck washorn at Decatur, 111., and began his careerin the shops and as a locomotive firemanon the Des Moines Valley Railway, afterwhich he became locomotive engineer onthe same road. In January. 1876, lie tran.,-fcrred himself to the St. Louis, Keokuk& Northwestern, upon which road heworked as engineer. In August, 1878, howent as locomotive engineer to the Han-nibal & St. Joseph Railroad. In Novem-ber, l8Sj, he became division master nicchanic on the same road at , and later master mechanic on theChicago & Western Indiana and to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy andworked in the shop at Beardstown, 111.,as a machinist. He soon rose to be agang foreman in the shop and was later


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