Professional Life: Positions Held
Hastings was educated at common schools then went to the National Business College in nearby Kansas City, Missouri.
Hastings began his railroad career on August 18, 1891 as a rate clerk with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in Topeka 35 miles from where he was born. He retired 51 years later in 1942 at the end of the month he turned 70 as a vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad living in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the years he held the positions:
- August 1891 to March 1895, Topeka, Kansas, Revising and interline clerk in the freight auditor’s office, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
- April 1895 to September 1895, Prescott, Arizona, Freight clerk, Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway.
- October 1895 to August 1898, Prescott, Arizona, Freight clerk and traveling auditor.
- September 1898 to August 1900, Jerome, Arizona, Freight clerk, United Verde Copper Company.
- September 1900 to September 1902, Jerome, Arizona, Auditor and general freight and passenger agent, United Verde & Pacific Railway.
- October 1902 to March 1903, Independent accountant.
- April 1903 to February 1907, Prescott, Arizona, Auditor, Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway.
- March 1907 to 1912, Prescott, Arizona, General freight and passenger agent, Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix Railway.
- 1912-1918, San Francisco, California, Assistant general freight agent, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
- 1918-1920, Washington, DC, United States Railroad Administration, Assistant director of traffic in charge of the freight rate department.
- 1921-1922, Chicago, Illinois, Member of the standing rate committee of the Trans-continental Freight Bureau.
- 1922-1936, San Francisco, California, General freight agent, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
- 1936-1937, San Francisco, California, Assistant freight traffic manager, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
- 1937-1942, San Francisco, California, Vice president in charge of traffic, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.
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