E. M. Luckett

 

E. M. Luckett, general foreman of the locomotive department of the Southern Pacific Railroad shops, Sacramento, came here in 1873, went to work in the machine department as a machinist, was appointed foreman of the machine shops at Terrace, Utah, remained there two years and eleven months. Then he left the company and entered the employ of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, and was foreman of the shops at Carson for two years; next he went to Bodie, where he became master mechanic for the Bodie & Benton Railroad about a year. Leaving Bodie on account of his health, he returned to Sacramento and re-entered the employ of the Central Pacific as gang foreman, in 1882. Two years later he was promoted to the position of foreman of the machine shops, and since that time has been general foreman. He is a native of Maryland, born in Frederick County, October 1, 1849, was reared there and learned the machinist’s trade in the Baltimore & Ohio shops at Grafton, being there four years all together. Next he was employed for a time in the Mt. Clare shops at Baltimore: then entered the Pittsburg Locomotive Works, and later the shops at Louisville for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company; was gang foreman there two years. In 1873 he came to California and entered the railroad shops as mentioned. His parents were J. C. and Mary A. (Graham) Luckett, his father a native of Maryland, and mother, of Virginia. They now live in Hamilton, Loudon County, Virginia. Mr. Luckett has evinced a great capacity for heavy responsibilities, being energetic and thoroughly competent.