. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and a particularly handsome daycar and freight car filled with speci-mens of the products from the districtthe railroad runs through, a 40-ton coalcar and a model of an anthracite coalbreaker. This model appeared to attractmore attention than any device shown inthe Transportation Building. There was acurious crowd of visitors about it all daylong—men, women and children, everyoneapparently greatly interested in how the there is to be seen. The views show alikethe scenic attractions and the in
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and a particularly handsome daycar and freight car filled with speci-mens of the products from the districtthe railroad runs through, a 40-ton coalcar and a model of an anthracite coalbreaker. This model appeared to attractmore attention than any device shown inthe Transportation Building. There was acurious crowd of visitors about it all daylong—men, women and children, everyoneapparently greatly interested in how the there is to be seen. The views show alikethe scenic attractions and the industries,including the great business done by thecompany in coal mining and the transport-ation of the same; also in the manufac-turing industries along the line. Part ofthe exhibit are two maps showing the dis-tricts fed by the Delaware, Lackawanna &Western. The maps are very handsomelygot out and attract a great deal of atten-tion. The freight car is filled with samples ofthe products found along the road—farm,mineral and oil products, wood and manu-facturing products. There is a wonder-. L.\CKA\VANNA ENGINE SHOWN IT EXPOSITION—CYLINDERS 20X26 INCHES, DRIVERS 69 INCHES, WEIGHT 139,000POUNDS. position to a great extent. Nearly everyrailroad leading towards Buffalo has beenadvertising the advantages of their roadas the means of reaching the expositionfor months, but most of them have madeno effort to increase the attractions of theexposition by having something from theirlines for people to look at. We think thishas been a great mistake for the Pan-American Exposition offers one of thevery best methods of displaying the at-tractions of any particular line to a greatnumber of people. The only railroad that seems to havemade a special effort to make its productswell known is the Delaware, Lackawanna& Western. The Lackawanna people havedone themselves great credit in the coal was prepared for use in stoves andfurnaces. The model breaker rests on aslab o
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