contributor: Richard LaBrosse

 
 year unknown

J. W. Waldron of this city recently, received the sad tiding that his brother O. E "Dell" Waldron, a railroad engineer on the Milwaukee road, had been found dead in bed at his home in Avery, Idaho, last Wednesday.

Mr. Waldren had been on the head-end of motive power, pulling trains through western Montana for a quarter of a century.

Since 1908, when the Milwaukee came through Western Montana, Mr. Waldron had been an engineer on that system, a popular railroad man, enjoying the respect and friendship of his co-workers. He made his headquarters at Deer Lodge for years.

Waldron was at the throttle when steam was replaced by oil burners and when oil gave way to the "white juice" of the electric motors, following the electrification between _________________________