1947-1971

No. 171 January, 1951 Fifty Years With B. of L. E. Joseph Fair in insert receives 50-year pin from Russell Follis. He is also shown in the cab of his old locomotive No. 7048 when he was on the Lynwood-Listowel run. Fifty years membership in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers was suitably recognized when the distinctive pin symbolic of this honour was pinned on Joseph Fair of Listowel at a recent banquet of Lodge 295 at Toronto. Doing the honours is Russell Follis (left) retired engineer and former member of the railway commission.   Mr. Fair, now 90 years of age, retired in 1925. Still in good health, he attends many of the brotherhood functions in cities near his home town.   In 1939, almost 14 years after he left active service, he was called out for one important last run. It was the occasion of the closing of the Listowel branch, and he took the last train out of Listowel station before the rails were torn up.   He is seen above in the cab of engine 7048, in which he saw a great many years of service, running between lynwood on the Goderich subdivision, to Listowel.   © 2005 William C. Slim       http://www.okthepk.ca