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Show tfTsisMioppflrs, ana In short time was running her as engineer. He is the youngest man of the quartette, being about, seventy-eight, and so well preserved pre-served and active as to be competent to take a train regularly. OLD TIME RAILROADERS. One of Them lias Jleen in Harness Ever Since 1830. Christopher Smith, who lives on Maryland heights, opposite Harper's ferry, is the oldest living locomotive engineer en-gineer on the continent, says the Baltimore Balti-more Sun. The next oldest is Joseph York, of Meadville, Pa. Samuel Double-day Double-day is the oldest living employe of the Baltimore & Ohio and William Ijams the next oldest. Doubleday was the first finisher ever employed in a railroad snop in tne country, ana entered tne Baltimore & Ohio service in 1830. Ijams was not long after him, and was the first blacksmith in the company's employ. em-ploy. Doubleday subsequently became superint endent of the Winan shops and Ijams foreman of the Winan smith shops. The former is eighty-two and the latter eighty-six years of age. Christopher Chris-topher Smith began with the Baltimore & Ohio in 1331 as a driver, when there was no steam power on the road, and in 1SS3 was a fireman on the Traveler, the third locomotive placed upon the road, and a year later became the engineer of the John Quiney Adams, one of the earliest of the grasshopper engines. He was an engineer two years before Gal-laway, Gal-laway, the veteran Baltimore & Ohio engineer, who died a year ago. Smith is over eighty years of age, and was for nearly if not quite a full half century in the Baltimore & Ohio service, ne is a hale and hearty man for his extreme age and bears a striking resemblance to the later portraits of Washington. York became a Baltimore Sfc Ohio man in 1836, acting as a fireman unon otib of the |