. Electric railway gazette . echan-ical pursuits and became the headof the firm of Macfarren, Levy &Co., of Chicago, which manufactured lathes and machinetools. All this time however, he was greatly interested inin railway work, and during the International RailwayAppliance Exposition in Chicago, in 1883, he became aneager student of all the new devices and methods. Soonafter he accepted a position as superintendent of construc-tion for the Iron Mountain Company in Durango, Mexico,where blast furnace and machine shops were located. Heremained in this position for some years, during which hemad
. Electric railway gazette . echan-ical pursuits and became the headof the firm of Macfarren, Levy &Co., of Chicago, which manufactured lathes and machinetools. All this time however, he was greatly interested inin railway work, and during the International RailwayAppliance Exposition in Chicago, in 1883, he became aneager student of all the new devices and methods. Soonafter he accepted a position as superintendent of construc-tion for the Iron Mountain Company in Durango, Mexico,where blast furnace and machine shops were located. Heremained in this position for some years, during which hemade earnest, though ineffectual attempts to promote rail-way connections so greatly needed then, and-since suppliedby the Huntingdon system. Returning to the UnitedStates he devoted himself to practical work in electrictraction, the beginning of which he had seen inthe performance of the Field locomotive in thegallery of the old Exposition building in Chicago in has since that time been busily engaged in this field. as promoter, financial agent, contractor, manager andengineer. Among the railways with which he has beenconnected are the following : Suburban Rapid TransitCompany, Braddock & Turtle Creek Railway Company,White Electric Traction Company, Schenley Park & High-lands Railway Company, Homestead & Highlands Rail-way Company, the Passenger Railway Company, of <Altoona, the Cumberland, (Md.) Railway Company, andthe Martinsburg, (W. Va.) Railway. Company. He is con-sulting engineer of the Buffalo & Niagara Falls ElectricRailway Company and of several other well-known com-panies. He equipped the Beaver & Ellwood Railway withan electric system for passenger service without interfer-ing with the freight traffic by steam locomotive. Thiswas a pioneer installation in this field. Mr. Macfarren hascontributed valuable information by papers and in discus-sions at the meetings of the American Society of Mechan-ical Engineers and the American Street Railway Associa-tion. The
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