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Virgil Bogue was born on July 20, 1846, at Norfolk, New York, United States, the son of George C. and Mary (Perry) Bogue.
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Virgil Bogue was born on July 20, 1846, at Norfolk, New York, United States, the son of George C. and Mary (Perry) Bogue.
Vigil received his preparatory school education at Russell's Military School, New Haven, Connecticut, and then attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from which he was graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1868.
Bogue's chief work was in connection with railroads, in both North and South America. As a young man, just a year out of college, he went to Peru where he had his first railroad experience. Part of that time was spent as assistant engineer (1869 - 1877) on the construction of the Oroya Railway which, in crossing the Andes, reached the highest altitude of any railway in the world. During his last years in Peru (1877 - 1879) he was manager of the Trajilo Railway. While assistant engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad (1880 - 1886), in locating a line across the Cascade Mountains in Washington, he discovered and named Stampede Pass through which he drove a two-mile tunnel. At the completion of this work he became chief engineer for the Union Pacific System, serving in this capacity for five years.
In 1891, Bogue established himself as a consulting engineer with offices in New York City. Transportation problems very largely occupied his time during the twenty-five years he was engaged in private practise. He was a member of the commission appointed by President Harrison to investigate methods for improving the navigation of the Columbia River, and of the commission appointed by Mayor Strong to determine the feasibility of operating surface cars on Brooklyn Bridge. For three years he was consulting engineer for the governor of New Zealand on a route for a proposed railway across the South Island. From 1905 to 1909, the four years during which the Western Pacific Railway was constructed, he acted as both its vice president and its chief engineer. The capacity which made him so valuable in railroad work was his combination of a practical constructive talent with a fine sense of the economic aspects of railway operation.
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On March 2, 1872, Bogue married Sybil Estelle Russell of San Francisco.