From the November, 1912 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine
DIVISION ENGINEER BAKER.
On the preceding page will be found a picture of Mr. L.P. Baker, Division engineer of the Mahoning Division, whose office is at Youngstown, Ohio.

In Mr. Baker will be found a real veteran of the Erie service, he having been with the Company since boyhood, except for a period of 14 years. He was born at Freedom, Portage County, Ohio, and, when ready to begin life as a bread-winner, which was at the age of 19, entered the Maintenance of Way Department of the old A. & G.W., and has never deserted it.

Starting in as a track laborer, he eventually worked himself up to section foreman, supervisor, general road master, and was appointed division engineer of the Meadville Division in March, 1903. In December, 1906, he was transferred to the Mahoning Division, and has been its division engineer since that time.

From 1889 to 1903, however, Mr. Baker was with the Pittsburgh & Western (B. & 0.), but drifted back to the old home, and is a good, earnest worker in a department of the service, which is very busy at the present time.