Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — RAIL CHIEF RUNS ENGINE [ARTICLE]

RAIL CHIEF RUNS ENGINE

O. P. Byers, Principal Owner of A. and N., Which Has No Debt, Takes Sick Driver’s Place. Hutchinson, Kan. —Because of the illness of the regular engineer on the Anthony and Northern railway, O. P. Byers of Hutchinson, president of the new line, dopned overalls, climbed into the cab and took the regular train out of Pratt bn time recently. Byers returned to the engine cab after a quarter of a century’s absence. He was promoter of the original Hutchinson and Southern road, now owned and operated by the Sante Fe, and later was connected with the traffic department of the Rock Island railroad. The Anthony and Northern is virtually owned by Byers. It is unique in that it is a railroad built and operated without a cent. of bonded Indebtedness, and it is paying dividends.