An apprentice engineer was operating the Amtrak train at the time.
At last he turned up as apprentice engineer or 'striker' on a steamboat.
Prior to turning professional, he was an apprentice marine engineer.
William was nearly nineteen when he left university to become an apprentice engineer.
Along the way they find a dead apprentice engineer with a missing right hand who is younger than Anna Fang.
"I've heard of boys that young being apprentice engineers, but he should never have been down there alone."
He worked as an apprentice engineer for a construction company only to give up that career after six months of practice to go back to drawing.
On first leaving school, Delaney started work as an apprentice engineer.
"I made 55 cents an hour as an apprentice engineer," he said.
Each summer apprentice engineers and students stayed in the plant's boarding house with attached classroom while getting on-the-job experience.