Show S S Si i Veteran Railroad Man I I I IS i S e t f. f t Forty Years of Service j t I 5 5 I I S. S S S SS SS S S S S. S S S Sa a T. T 1 II TOM rOI E CV EStS s AMONG OLD EMPlOYEES luAU U II U I iii I I l I I If II II I II 1 t I I k X Evans Assisted in Building Southern Utah Road Now Salt Lake Route S With a i record of fOTt forty years years' railroad railroad rail rail- road rond sen service nice Ice In the employ of or the liar Har- riman lines Ines T. T H. H Tom Toni Evans on of oC this elt city has accepted a position at nt Los An Au- geles gelest Among tho the pioneer railroad men meno of o the state possibly none is better known Beginning as a a. boy carrying water to a con construction camp and gradually working up to the position of ot general foreman Mr tir Evans E has witnessed sed the progress s of the railroad business of Utah from 1872 until the time present time Ills JIb experience has hns covered all the mechanIcal mechanical mechanical me me- end of oC railroad work and he heis heis is 15 considered an n authority on matters pertaining to railroad mechanics mechanic In the Carl early of oe railroading In iti lt Utah h Mr lr Evans g took an active part As he lie has halt grown up with the business he be i Is Is- possibly pOJ one of ot the best posted men on railroad affairs in Utah today For several oral years ears he was wan 8 general Jeneral foreman foreman foreman fore fore- man of the Harriman shops in the city and for a a. long period waH was superintendent superintend superintend- ent pf pC the old narrow gauge gau line which ran to Garfield and Stockton He lie ati- ati in building the old Southern Utah railroad now the Salt Lake Route Houte and ant also aul assisted ted in iii the th building building- of the shops at Logan when that city was ns one of or the important railroad towns of or Utah Ills Cort forty years ear of or service was as completed completed com corn In December cember making ron him one of the oldeSt employees of or the harriman system In Utah His HIli transfer to Los Ios Angeles will bo be regretted by b y hundreds of or his bis fellow employers employees Ho was known amon among nil all th the railroad men of ot the state and in Iii his hie long service ser has formed ninny many strong friendships |