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How do we know if we passed? 😉
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Interesting. Do you know what year this was?
I wonder if my Grandfather knew him?
He was an engineer with the New York Central line and made many runs to Charleston, W. Va. ( Nitro, W. Va.).
It's a small world, huh?
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Interesting. Do you know what year this was?
I wonder if my Grandfather knew him?
He was an engineer with the New York Central line and made many runs to Charleston, W. Va. ( Nitro, W. Va.).
It's a small world, huh?
In 1890, Murray was already employed by the railroad as a Special Agent.
In 1900, Murray was employed as a hostler: he worked on locomotives, drove them to the railroad roundhouse for servicing, and performed similar duties at St. Mary’s, Ohio. In 1907, he was transferred to Charleston, West Virginia, as a Special Officer for the Toledo & Ohio Central Railway Kanawha & Michigan Railway, Employee #1056.
On August 31, 1909, Murray W. Taylor was first commissioned as a Police Officer for the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad.
By 1910, Murray moved his family to 746 Doyle Street, located in Ward 9, Columbus, Ohio. He was 48 years old, and his occupation was Detective, Railroad.
Murray W. Taylor’s Police Commission for the Toledo and Ohio Railroad was renewed twice: August 31, 1912 and August 26, 1915. Detective Taylor was busy investigating crimes on the tracks and trains. In Columbus, he had his own office, but that didn’t keep him from working field duty.
On September 19, 1921, Chief of Detectives Murray W. Taylor received his Police Commission from the Toledo and Ohio Central and Zanesville and Western Railway.
January 31, 1922, Toledo and Ohio Central leased to the New York Central, includes the railroad, properties and franchises of the T&OC
He held the position of Police Chief with the now merged New York Central, until his death in Nov 1924.

His son Delmar W. Taylor followed in his footsteps, and at least by 1929 was a Railroad Policeman and was the Chief of Police for the region including Charleston, W. Va. by 1936 and maintained that post until at least 1956.

So grandpa almost certainly knew the family.



Have you every tried looking through some of the online copies of the New York Central's monthly publications called the Headlight, for any stories of your grandpa?

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The first man in post 1 looks like he could crack a mean hobo's skull. The bunch above looks like a firm of CPA's or tax lawyers.
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The first man in post 1 looks like he could crack a mean hobo's skull.
He probably did a time or two:

On April 27, 1917, the newspaper headline read: “WEARY WILLIE STOPPED TRAIN” the subhead told “Was Arrested and Bound Over to Grand Jury.” The article describes how three men in a boxcar, T. & O. C. freight train No. 76 bound south for Columbus, and the angle-cock was shut off, which often causes a train wreck. When the engineer investigated, he found only one man, in drunken state, trying to shut the emergency brake off. “M.W. Taylor, a detective on the T. & O. C., arrived in Marysville on Thursday morning and filed charges against the hobo for tampering with railroad property.” Later, the article goes on, “This is a serious offense, and Detective Taylor stated that two other men have been sent to the penitentiary for the same offense.” The lengthy clipping reads that several T. &. O. C. stations have been broken into along the lines, with items like shoestrings stolen. Detective Taylor and Marshal Omeroid searched hobo camps for the other men, but didn’t locate them, figuring they caught another train into Columbus.
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Thanks for that update Bigwheel.
I will look for the 'Headlight' and see what turns up.
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I will look for the 'Headlight' and see what turns up.
They can be a bit elusive, since the old issues are not all compiled in a single place or even by organizations that you would associate with the NYC.
Also, Google often doesn't place those results until 7-12 pages back in the search results for some reason.
When you find them, they're PDF's, and you can use the search function under "Edit" on your browsers menu to quickly find his name.

Good luck, and if want me to take a look, PM me his name and approx. years of service.
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Was Taylor a relative of yours, BWZ?
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Was Taylor a relative of yours, BWZ?
No relation. The son, Delmar (D.W. Taylor in the second pic) was the original owner of a revolver that was lettered to Kris "410bore".

I was trying to send Kris some provenance in a PM, but it wasn't appearing in the preview pane. I got frustrated and used the forum thread to troubleshoot what I was doing wrong in the PM.

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