. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . is to wait for theirtrains from over the river. Kelly, seeingthe 185 for the first time, climbed downfrom the 69 and came over to whereTom Manafee. the engineer who had beenassigned to pilot Wolf on the trial fastrun. was oiling around, preparing for therace; for they knew there would be a race,and a hot one. too. Hello! shouted Kelly, as he Razed at caught lip. Then they were to try eachothers mettle. The racing ground was anideal one. For thirteen miles the twotracks were level and parallel, perfectlys
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . is to wait for theirtrains from over the river. Kelly, seeingthe 185 for the first time, climbed downfrom the 69 and came over to whereTom Manafee. the engineer who had beenassigned to pilot Wolf on the trial fastrun. was oiling around, preparing for therace; for they knew there would be a race,and a hot one. too. Hello! shouted Kelly, as he Razed at caught lip. Then they were to try eachothers mettle. The racing ground was anideal one. For thirteen miles the twotracks were level and parallel, perfectlystraight, and less than 100 feet they diverged. Both trains came off the Eads bridgeinto the relay station twenty minutes gave the two engines a splendidopportunity to race. How high and de-fiant the 185 looked as she stood thereunder the electric lights, being coupledon to her train! her paintwork, of blackand gold, clean and shining; her Russiairon jacket and bright iron parts gleaminglike polished silver, and her brass trim-mings and copper pipes glistening like. Hoiv high and defiant she looked as she stood there under the electric lights! her Russia-iron jacket and bright ironfarts gleaming like polished silver, and her brass trimmings and copper pipes glistening like blemished gold. Her hugedriving wheels betrayed the terrific speed lurking there. line whose engine held the trophy. Manyan exciting brush there had been for thepossession of the trophy, and many timeshad it changed hands. This the trophy was called by the railroadmen, floated from the headlight hand-railof the winning engine, and did more toinfluence travel than the advertising ofthe enterprising passenger agents. Thesheepskin passed backwards and for-wards, first to one engine, then to another,until the Ohio & Mississippi engine Cgwas built at the companys shops at Vin-cennes, Ind. She was very speedy, hadwon the sheepskin on her first trip, andhad held it ever since. This
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