. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . reeny,youll learn all that in time. Youre tooyoung to talk much yet. Just listen andlearn. Hello! Southey, hailed a voice fromNo. 3 track, dont be too hard on the grow old fast. Wait till youve had myexperience, and you wont be so thankfuland happy. Look at me! Only threeyears old—dyspeptic, rheumatic and para-lytic—one foot already in my grave. Near-ly dead ! Yes ! nearly dead—nearly deadenough to bury! Give me tallow brake shoes, if thereisnt an old guy just about to croak. ob-served Northey, pityingly
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . reeny,youll learn all that in time. Youre tooyoung to talk much yet. Just listen andlearn. Hello! Southey, hailed a voice fromNo. 3 track, dont be too hard on the grow old fast. Wait till youve had myexperience, and you wont be so thankfuland happy. Look at me! Only threeyears old—dyspeptic, rheumatic and para-lytic—one foot already in my grave. Near-ly dead ! Yes ! nearly dead—nearly deadenough to bury! Give me tallow brake shoes, if thereisnt an old guy just about to croak. ob-served Northey, pityingly. Dont ye recognize him. Northey?Dont ye recognize him ? called , hey? Why, thats Old Eastern—■93012—the old chap whose brake stuckand busted the wheel going down theSierra Nevadas over a year ago—nearlypitched us all over Cape Horn! Wasntyou in the train? No? Ahem! Is that you, Southern? Par-don me—Mr. Pacific, I should say. Yes, its me; but cut out your Bostonpoliteness, old man. and call me the other fellows do. Pardon me again, Mr. er Southey:. INTERN.\TIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL C.^R. sympathy with these little voices, you willbe told many interesting secrets. Thelittle voice given life by the leakage in thehose coupling or train pipe, tells its storyof neglect or abuse. The chatter of theemergency valve in the triple will explainto you its grievance. Likewise the blowat the retaining valve, the whistle at theexhaust port, the groan in the brake cyl-inder and the hiss at a loose joint or unionwill tell their tales of woe to your know-ing and sympathetic ear. Whether it was caused by the severeelectric storm of last night, or by some un-usual cause for grievance, is not known;anyhow, the little air-brake voices in thebig railroad yard across the river werethis morning unusually loud and demon-strative. They chattered and hissed andsputtered and called to each other withunusual freedom and noise. A brand-new air brake, just fastened ye
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