Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — ENGINEER FIFTY-TWO YEARS [ARTICLE]

ENGINEER FIFTY-TWO YEARS

W. E. Miller, Seventy Years Old, Placed on Pension List by Vandalia, Enjoys Unique Record. W. E. Miller, seventy years old, who went on the pension list of the Vandalia railroad July 1, was the oldest engineer in point of service in the middle West, having run an engine 52 years.- ' Moreover, his father before him ran in engine, the first on the Vandalia, which was made" in Boston, came to Buffgio by rail, to Toledo by lake and to Terre Haute by the Wabash and Erie canal. At- that time, in the early fifties, the Pennsylvania system, of which the Vandalia is a jpurt, had no road across Ohio.

Miller had ’ only one bad accident, and he was the only*one seriously injured in it. All passengers escaped injury. He was laid up many months when this happened in 1905. For the last 25 years he has made a dally run from Terre Haute to Indianapolis and back.