RAILROAD VETERAN

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 15

RAILROAD VETERAN

FIFTY YEARS AT THROTTLE

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

SAN FRANCISCO, 13th January. Mr. Roger Trawick, an Englishman, grey and grizzled railroad veteran, brought m his last train on New Year's Eve, and stepped down from the footplate after having completed fifty years at the throttle. His first day of retirement was his seventieth birthday. Mr. Trewick's record is believed to be without parallel on western railroads. In service and age he was the oldest enginedriver on the Southern Pacific. In fifty years' driving of locomotives he never had an accident.

Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Ist January, 1857, he came to the United States aa a child of two. His father was a blacksmith, employed by the Central Pacific, parent organisation of the Southern Pacific, before the first trans-continental railroad was completed. It was but five months in operation when Roger Trewick began his railroad career at the ago of 12. Ho became an engine-driver at 20, and his whole, service was on fast passenger trains. For many years he piloted the Southern Limited out of San Francisco. The chiefs of his company tendered him a banquet.