Edward J. Engel was hired by the Chicago Burlington & Quincy
Railroad where he worked as a switch tender and brakeman in
Wyanet, Buda and Mendota, Illinois
He was hired by the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad in
1875 where he worked at the following locations: Genesco,
Tiskilwa, Ottawa and Marseilles, Illinois
He went to the C B & Q - C R I & P Junction, at Wyanet in
1878 and was the first operator of the Junction, with his
mother, Jacobina putting up boarders overnight.
In 1880 he was the joint agent/operator of the
C B & Q - C R I & P, junction, sharing duties with his
friend, Samuel Crossett.
E. J. left the Junction in 1881 to take a position with the
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railroad in Emporia, Kansas,
moving in 1882 to Halstead, Kansas and finally
Argentine, Kansas, in the late summer of 1882.
Edward John Engel retired from Santa Fe in 1928
Source: A T & S F Railroad News
January 1920
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