. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . get it betweenthe wheels. The engine was designed by a , who had no other locomotive ex-perience. She was built of the bestmaterial and the best English workman-ship, no expense being spared to mike hera great success. \t For nearly a year she has been quietlyresting (and rusting) on a stub track at theMilwaukee shops, just as she appears inour picture. If anyone wants an odd en-gine at little cost, the owner of this onewould probably sell her dirt cheap. ^ Common Civility. Walking around the sho
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . get it betweenthe wheels. The engine was designed by a , who had no other locomotive ex-perience. She was built of the bestmaterial and the best English workman-ship, no expense being spared to mike hera great success. \t For nearly a year she has been quietlyresting (and rusting) on a stub track at theMilwaukee shops, just as she appears inour picture. If anyone wants an odd en-gine at little cost, the owner of this onewould probably sell her dirt cheap. ^ Common Civility. Walking around the shop with a mastermechanic recently, the writer could nothelp noticing the gruff, surly and insult-ing tone of his remarks and orders to hismen. He ignored foremen altogether, and gaveorders direct to everybody he met. Wemight add that the place looked more likea boars nest than a shop. His bullyingbluster made us think of the reply of themate of a whaler who was offered pro-motion, honorable mention and a share ofthe profits. I dont want no promotion ;I dont want no honorable mention ; I. Thi. Tolk-man Engine—After the Mr. Winby wanted her to haul fast,heavy American trains, and, after the Fair,she was put on the C, M. & St. P. road,between Chicago and Milwaukee, wherethev would like to haul ten sleepers onthe division, 82 miles, in two hours. She was quite English, ye know; sothey put an old pilot, and a small head-light on her. She slipped, and then theyborrowed a second-hand sandbox for laws required a bell, and an old-time one was fished up from the didnt .suck her ashes—as the fire-man explained—and an extension was puton her stack. The side stays in her boiler developedmore leaks and more kinds of leaks thanwere comfortable; the machinery brokedown ; she failed to steam all the time, orto get anywhere when she did steam, andboth her friends and her foes voted unani-mously that she wouldnt do. dont want no share in the profits. .\11 Iwant is co
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