From the June, 1915 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
Allegany Division Engineer L.T. Howard, running engine #510 with fireman J.R. Burghardt, was listed as being in the Order of the Red Spot for June, 1915. The Order was an honor bestowed on engine crews who operated efficiently with few engine failures.

From the November, 1924 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
Engineer L.E. Howard received recognition for having operated his engine during last year without a failure. This fact is of particular importance because Engineer Howard operated his engine during the year 1923 without a failure. Superintendent Edmunds sent him a letter complimenting him on this fine record.

From the November, 1926 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine:
LUCIEN T. HOWARD
Stricken with apoplexy, Sunday morning, Oct. 17 (1926), while sitting in the conductors' room of the Erie station at Hornell, N.Y., Lucien T. Howard, a retired Erie locomotive engineer, died forty-eight hours later.

He was born in Massachusetts in 1849 and in 1865 came to Hornell, N.Y., where, three years later, he entered the service of the Erie Railroad as a brakeman. A year later he became a locomotive fireman and on Jan. 1, 1877, was promoted to engineer. For eighteen years he ran an Erie pusher engine at Cuba, N.Y., and then he ran a passenger engine, retiring from the road about three years ago after fifty-five years of service and with a record that was to his honor.

Mr. Howard was a Mason of high degree and a member for forty-five years of Division 47, B. of L.E.

His wife died several years ago. He is survived by two daughters, Miss Mabelle Howard, of Bloomfield, N.J., and Mrs. E.D. Pettit, of Wellsville, N.Y.