. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . plant, at Pittsburgh,Pa. The next year he held the posi-tion of foreman of the Bedford shopsof the Bedford Division of the P. R, R,Later on he was promoted to be assist-ant master mechanic of the Harrisburgshops, beginning with December, 190, held the latter position until No-vember I. 1904, when he was again pro-moted and became general foreman ofthe Columbia shop. Mr. J. J. Shaw has been appointeddivision foreman of the St. Louis &San Francisco at Neodosha, Kan., viceMr. C. E. Brown, tr
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . plant, at Pittsburgh,Pa. The next year he held the posi-tion of foreman of the Bedford shopsof the Bedford Division of the P. R, R,Later on he was promoted to be assist-ant master mechanic of the Harrisburgshops, beginning with December, 190, held the latter position until No-vember I. 1904, when he was again pro-moted and became general foreman ofthe Columbia shop. Mr. J. J. Shaw has been appointeddivision foreman of the St. Louis &San Francisco at Neodosha, Kan., viceMr. C. E. Brown, transferred. Mr. C. E. Walker has been appointedforeman of the car department of theHouston & Texas Central, with officeat Spencer, Mr. M. J. McGrath, master mechanicon the Illinois Central Railroad, at EastSt. Louis, HI., has been transferred toClinton, HI., in the same capacity. Donald Sinclair. Sinclair, a brother of our chief,died at Kankakee, III., on December Brights disease. Mr. Sinclair hasbeen for years head of the Sinclair Con-struction Company, of Chicago, which. DON.\ SINCLAIR. engaged in general contracting, thegreatest part of the work having beendone for the Illinois Central RailroadCompany. He was born in Scotland in1843, the son of a railway man, whosegreatest aim in life was to give his chil-dren the best education his means af-forded. Donald learned the blacksmithtrade, but his health failing over theforge, he went to work for a firm ofcontractors as assistant to the engineerson the locating part of the CaledonianRailway, Civil engineering became hischosen profession, and he showed muchperseverance and self-denial in studyingthe principles of the business. He pro-gressed rapidly and soon pushed himselfinto important positions in which he cameto conduct several important engineeringenterprises, among them the constructingof a tunnel to Loch Katrine for the waterdepartment of Glasgow. Wishing to gointo business for himself he came to th
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