. The Street railway journal . ing devoted to thatdivision of the system. MR. U. L. UPSON, general manager of the Buffalo, EastOtto & Cattaraugus Railroad Company, was born at Canisteo,N. Y., in 1853. and has worked his way in the railway professionfrom the very bottom to his present position. He remained ona farm unitl 1869, receiving only a common school education, andthen entered the service of the Erie Railroad Company as water boy for a gang of constructionmen. He was soon promoted,however, to the position of time-keeper, and after about fourmonths commenced work as abrakeman on the road,
. The Street railway journal . ing devoted to thatdivision of the system. MR. U. L. UPSON, general manager of the Buffalo, EastOtto & Cattaraugus Railroad Company, was born at Canisteo,N. Y., in 1853. and has worked his way in the railway professionfrom the very bottom to his present position. He remained ona farm unitl 1869, receiving only a common school education, andthen entered the service of the Erie Railroad Company as water boy for a gang of constructionmen. He was soon promoted,however, to the position of time-keeper, and after about fourmonths commenced work as abrakeman on the road, where heremained for three years he was made conductorand worked for some time inboth the freight and passengerservice. While a brakeman helearned telegraphy, and later hewas employed by the company ina position which required muchoffice work. This caused hishealth to break down, and he re-turned to more congenial dutiesin the construction line as con-ductor of a work train on theWest Shore Railroad. Since then. U. L. UPSON he has confined himself almost entirely to construction work, bothon the West Shore Railroad and the Wisconsin Central Railroad,his love for this kind of work keeping him in that was, however, before he organized the Buffalo, Hamburg &Aurora Railway Company, conductor on the Boston & HoosacTunnel Railroad. Mr. Upson comes from a railroad family, hav-ing several brothers who, like himself, worked their way throughall the departments of railroad work. The undertaking of whichhe is now general manager is one of considerable importance, andhis present work is of a most congenial nature. The Buffalo,East Otto & Cattaraugus Railroad is to be some 35 miles long,and General Manager Upson is doing a work which, although ithas been long in contemplation, has, owing to the engineeringdifficulties encountered, been supposed to be impracticable, fourdifferent companies which undertook the surveys abandoning theproject. Work is now fairly well pr
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