. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . chland were pas-senger engines with 5 ft. driving wheelsand built at Portland, Me. Some of the engineers on the MadRiver & Lake Erie were E. M. Smith,George Bristol, Wm. Brown, John Car-son, Joe Windol, Joe Lansdown, JoeLease, Johnson, Levi Hancock, PeteThomas, Pete Howe, John Smith, Dick Early Railroading Around Dayton. Editor: It will perhaps be interesting to therailroad men of Ohio as well as thoseof Dayton to read an account of earlyrailroading in and out of Dayton. Whata change there ha
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . chland were pas-senger engines with 5 ft. driving wheelsand built at Portland, Me. Some of the engineers on the MadRiver & Lake Erie were E. M. Smith,George Bristol, Wm. Brown, John Car-son, Joe Windol, Joe Lansdown, JoeLease, Johnson, Levi Hancock, PeteThomas, Pete Howe, John Smith, Dick Early Railroading Around Dayton. Editor: It will perhaps be interesting to therailroad men of Ohio as well as thoseof Dayton to read an account of earlyrailroading in and out of Dayton. Whata change there has been since the firstrailroad in the State has been built. Itwas then the old Sandusky, Mansfield& Newark Railroad, and was built inthe early forties. The second railroad in the state was _built in 1849, and was known as theMad River & Lake Erie Railroad. Itafterwards made connections with theLittle Miami Railroad at Springfield forCincinnati. In 1850 an extension of theMad River & Lake Erie was built fromSpringfield to Dayton, and connectedwith the Little Miami at Springfield. It. OLD MASON ENGINE MANSFIELD, 1876. superintendent; T. P. Ford, mastermechanic. The passenger engines onthis road were the Niagara, Hud-son, St. Lawrence, and were built at Lowell, four engines were all inside con-nected and were named after engines were named after townsand counties and were all outside con- Goodel, Comrod, Crane, George Laneand Israel Scranton. Mr. Scrantoncarried a large bullseye watch in hispocket and it was a standing joke to askhim the time. He also carried a rule,snuff box, pair of callipers in his pant?pocket. The very first engines on thisroad had no hand rails or runningboards on them. They had large spikes 6o RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING February, 1908. sticking out of the beams on the frontof engines to catch cows and from thisthe name of cow-catcher C. Pea.^, Ohio. Air Pump Nut : I hav
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