Foskitt H Ustick, a Burlington Railroad man of 45 years, he worked his way up to superintendant of all the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad line. He was one of the best known and most popular railroad executives in the middle west”, in which “Without question many railroad men throughout the country received their first experiences under his direction. If you did your work right, you would have no better friend on the line than Harry Ustick. The powers that be- who were wise in their generation- soon learned the sort of a man they had hunting coal cars about the Bevier yards and they called him higher.". He owned a house on the 800 block of South Lincoln, but traveled back and forth by rail to St. Louis.
The building at 1404 South Broadway was built by him and his son and at the top has his intials.
To honor “Harry’s” legacy, the BRHS postings and the C, B & Q Railroad in Kansas city, took the original Harlem interlocking at the junction of the main lines from Cameron and St. Joseph and in 1925, renamed it Ustick interlocking after F. H. Ustick. A control tower was later put there and named Ulstick Tower, then more recently that was torn down and everything was automated, but the Ustick name was retained.
Sources: (1) The Macon Republican (Macon, Missouri) · 25 Oct 1913,
Image Source: Denver Public LIbrary, Digital Collections, Western History Call Number: OP-3705
