Show Long Lono In Railroad Service Among the oldest railroad rood men in western Ontario Is 18 John Quirk of Wingham who IB la aged ninety years yearl Mr Quirk though definitely out of ot railroad work for tor some seine time can look back to 50 10 active years spent in iii the service ernee of various Tulous steam roads reads In lit the province When h he tie first Out began ran rail railroading In 1841 the tho engines engine burned wood there were ero no such things OB as S and sleepers earn eara were wore linked with Ith pin coupler and the speed attained at at- tamed WOld under favorable conditions conditio was only about twenty miles mlles an hour About the only osty thing th thin that t was wall the theme same me as u it Is I. today was wall the way that the conductors punched tickets Mr Quirk was wag a conductor during all the 50 years yean of Jail his railroad service nice |