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Show ENGINEER IS TO BE PENSIONED Salt Lake. Nov. 29. Gilbert A Mc Lean, the oldest engineer in point of service on the Oregon Short Line railroad, fs to bo retired under the pension uiles of the Union Pacific system after thirty-eight years of service. ser-vice. In fact, Mr McLean has been out of seivico since October 14, when liis retirement on p'enslon was recommended rec-ommended by General Manager E. E Calvin. The recommendation has been forwarded to President A. L. Mohler at Omaha and probably will not be acted upon until the regular meeting of the pension board of the company, which vn ill be held about the first of the 3 ear. Mr. McLean was born in St. Louis About the date of his birth ho is as mysterious as some of the gentler sex. But he did not remain in. St Louis long. When two years of age he went with his parents to Memphis, where he received his education. While in Memphis he learned the boil-ermaker's boil-ermaker's trade and worked as a hoil-ermaker hoil-ermaker for the old Memphis & Charleston Char-leston railroad, now a part of the Southern railway. Came to Utah In 1875. After a time he took a position with the operating department as locomotive loco-motive fireman and was subsequently promoted to engineer on a switch engine en-gine in the Memphis yards In 1875 Mr. McLean came to Utah and he first obtained employment as a machinist and later served as engineer en-gineer for several mines in the Alta district. But In 1S77 he again became be-came infected with the railroad fever fe-ver and came to Salt Lake to take service as engine watchman with the old Utah Central railroad. THe following fol-lowing year ho was sent out on the line to serve as engine watchman for the construction trains on the extension exten-sion then being built into Frisco. He was soon promoted to the position of fireman and in 1S79 was elevated to the position of engineer. Until the Salt Lake Route and the Oregon Short Line were placed under separate managements, man-agements, Mr. McLean served as an engineer the greater part of the time south of Salt Lake and since the segregation segre-gation the greater part of his work has been between Salt Lake and Og-den Og-den and Salt Lake and Preston, Idaho. Pulled Many Specials. For more than twenty-five years he has been employed almost exclusively in passenger service and has pulled many of the special trains that have made history in the' west. His last special of note was tho one that carried car-ried the Liberty bell from Ogden to Salt Lako last summer. |