. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heelcounterbalance, the outside cylinder loco-motive of the early days was a tremendouswiggler. When I was a boy working in the officeof the locomotive superintendent of theScottish Northeastern, at Arbroath, Scot-land, there were two old engines that stoodin the vard which were said to have been built in the early 30s. They were verysmall affairs with outside cylinders, a sin-gle pair of drivers and hook motion, calledin that country gab links. It happenedthat a great snowstorm blocked the line inthe no
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heelcounterbalance, the outside cylinder loco-motive of the early days was a tremendouswiggler. When I was a boy working in the officeof the locomotive superintendent of theScottish Northeastern, at Arbroath, Scot-land, there were two old engines that stoodin the vard which were said to have been built in the early 30s. They were verysmall affairs with outside cylinders, a sin-gle pair of drivers and hook motion, calledin that country gab links. It happenedthat a great snowstorm blocked the line inthe north, and one of these engines wassteamed up to take a carriage of officialsto the storm center. I was taken along todo the telegraph operating, and thought it engines, but the former have come outahead. The Caledonian Railway, in Scot-land, and the Great Northern, in England,persistently held to outside cylinders, whilenearly all other lines were adopting Drumniond brought the Caledonianinto line with the majority, and now itlooks as if all the other roads would would be fine to ride on the engine. Ishall never forget the ride. The engine-driver was told to hurPi, and he is a certain kind of vicious pony tobe seen in the West that appears to bemoving in every direction at once when heis trying to buck off the rider. This en-gine appeared to be of that species. Itplunged like a switching ponj of shortwheel base, it wiggled from side to side sothat one could not stand on the foot platewithout holding on, and it jerked thecoupling as if it would break loose everymoment. It was snowing hard, and therewas no protection except the boiler, andthe sparks fell over us. in showers. Itseemed to me that we were rushing to cer-tain destruction, when about seven milesout we struck a snow drift two or threefeet deep and stuck fast. The tubes wereleaking, so the water soon got low, the firewas drawn, and we were drawn home in-gloriously next day. About 1S40,
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