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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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was thus secured, the engine being ableto take all the curves it encounteredwith ease, and this arrangement placedall the weight on the drivers. The engine is a wood burner, with anold fashioned widely tapering stack,which was intended as a cinder collector Aiigusl, ICJ05. KAU.WAY AND LOCOMCjT)Vl*: ENGINEERING 35 as well as siiiokcstacU. Tin.- fiigiiic is infreight service and has been cunstantlyin use with the exception of the brief in-tervals in which inspection and repairwork had to be done. A High Speed Foreman. BV A. O. IIROOKSIDE. Once upon a time there was a locomo-tive foreman and he believed in liigh riie II. S. V. found that a great manyof the castings in the debris were still<). K., and that the bolts and rods, etc.,were noi only none the worse for wearbut had been, so to speak, annealedwhen he burned up the wrecked cars inclearing the right of way. If a bolthappened to be bent, it was easilystraightened, for this very reason, andin 97.86534 i)er cent., tlic threads were
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LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN GOODS TRAIN PASSING OVER WATKRTROUGHS AT BUSBEY. speed at all hours of the day and night.One beautiful moonlight night he wascalled upon to go out and clean up amoderate kind of a freight wreck, andhe did the business with neatness anddispatch. In order to facilitate mattershe burned up half a dozen freight cars.more or less, which were badly off thetrack and pretty well knocked abo..t.and which did not have any payingload in them. This is the modemrailroad equivalent for freight, whenyou are speaking as one who knows. He got the road clear for traffic andpulled everything clear of the main lineand went home leaving the tangled massof wrought and cast iron to cool. In duetime it radiated its heat to the circum-ambient air and lay there a silent buttwisted asset of tlie company. On Sun-days for a week or two thereafter hepicked up this scrap and took it home,and all went merry as a marriage bell. Time went on, which, as ArtemusWard once remarked, is a way t

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