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Show Popular Conductor JOHN" AO OMB. jjBo'w John Acomb would in-PjKi00? in-PjKi00? has never traveled to JMi or Juab with this pop-ISm pop-ISm 3I is probably the m T'road ,nn n this region, filK a on the road sincc ib lljiJ"f'f)1 sneaking about. He fllBdflnt ernd8.,h.Y the hundred, ?0 T' road officcs- -Min lVa Yorkshireman and ml IS6, H,e came this 4KilStlnK "n-ough Echo lE iTJ Td -of hn that jjLjonncctod : with tho m- building of tho ronds in Utah for forty-two forty-two years. . It was not until Soptombcr 3, IS J, however, that ho wns given a railroad position with tho old Utah Southern, and from that day to this ho has served the Toad uudor its various corporate titles, Utah Central, Union Pacific, Oregon Ore-gon Short Lino and Utah Northern, Oro-gon Oro-gon Short Lino and Salt Lake Route. Ho has been a conductor since 387;5, and ever sincc tho lino was built through to Juab ho has had a passenger pas-senger run. Tt is said of him thnt ho knows every famih' living in the settlements, bo-hveen bo-hveen Salt Lake and Juab if they ndc on the Salt Lake trains, and it can he added that they all know nnd admire John Acomb. |