. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r and engineer, mightbe placed. Said statement to contain afull description of the hot or theburst hose, or whatever it was that hadstalled them, for the information of thefollowing crew, and Eli suggested a sea*on the machine, in case they might at thelast moment want to send a man back The Story of a ilechanical Flagman. Not long ago, our old friend, Mr. EIiGuildcrfluke. was appointed general mas-ter mechanic of the Great Gas & Woolgathering Railway, with headquarters atFlapdoodle. As.
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r and engineer, mightbe placed. Said statement to contain afull description of the hot or theburst hose, or whatever it was that hadstalled them, for the information of thefollowing crew, and Eli suggested a sea*on the machine, in case they might at thelast moment want to send a man back The Story of a ilechanical Flagman. Not long ago, our old friend, Mr. EIiGuildcrfluke. was appointed general mas-ter mechanic of the Great Gas & Woolgathering Railway, with headquarters atFlapdoodle. As. He was thoroughlypleased with the appointment, becausehe had been rusting. as he expressedit, for a long time. His friends had urgedhim to take the appointment and hadsaid confidentially to him, Guilderfluke,old man, its not only your ability to runthe whole road which counts for somuch, as it is your marvelous powers forrevolutionizing everything in sight,which is going to score—you can leavethem all at the post easily. A few days after Eli had taken holdand had got things humming, a young. PRUSSIAN .ARTICULATED ENGINE. that the stalled train could not possiblystart while this charging-up process wasin progress, because the brakes wouidbe hard on, so any attempt on the partof the train to play the flagmanfalse would be nipped in the machine, not being human, whenstarted out, would not be consumed witha feverish desire to return to its train,so it was presumed that it would go backfar enough to warn a following train. a little way to oil it and see that every-thing was working all right. The joungman thanked Eli profusely, but the greatman said he was always glad to helpbright young men along, and that hewould make a sketch of the invention athome that evening, giving the wholething wider scope and enlarged day. when the two got to-gether. Eli explained his sketch to thevoung man. The machine had certainlv 4oS RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Sep
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