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THE INTELLIGENCER, Monday, August 17,1981 -5CN engineer Hatchie makes final run ending 37-year career By HENRY BURY Staff Reporter A third generation of Belleville family railroad engineers ended Saturday when Harry Taylor pulled in his Via train to Toronto's Union Station. Taylor, known to fellow employees as Hatchie, com- pleted almost 37 years of ser- vice with Canadian National Railway with his Toronto stop. For all but seven of those years, he was an Taylor spent Saturday, the first day of his early retire- ment, in his 297 Bleecker Ave. home, greeted by family and friends. Taylor's father, Harry, (also known as Hatchie), was an engineer with the Grand Trunk Railroad and CNR from 1914 to 1952. And Taylor's grandfather, Joe, was also an engineer from 1880 to 1920 with the Bay of Quinte, the Grand Trunk Railroad and the Point Anne Leighy railroad, Taylor started in the railroad business in 1945 as fireman and engineer in the steam locomotive era. In 1951, he became an engineer, handling both freight and passenger trains, mainly from Toronto to Brockville and later, to Montreal. In the last four years, he had the Kingston to Toronto run on thevia dayliner. I've run every type of equipment that the CiN has, fron the lowest steam engine to tie turbo," the 58-year-old Ta^or said. <T]'m going to miss the men I virked with over all those yers. Technology has chang- *edsver the years and I don't thik I'm going to miss that. It's a whole new ballgame now, "he said. Taylor said he plans on spending a lot of his retire- ment years in the family cot- tage north of Bancroft, hun- ting and fishing. Taylor's son spent four summers working with the railway earning enough money to pay for university. He's a teacher now, rather than deciding to follow in his father's footsteps. Taylor's nephew is with the railroad, currently being employed as an engine ser- vice breakman. And how did Taylor mark his final train run Saturday? . "My grandson, Casey, rode boarded the train back to in the (train) cab with me Belleville, from Belleville to Toronto," Taylor left the driving to so- he answered. meone else. He's a passenger Taylor and his grandson now.