. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he asked a man who was working onone of them when she went out man looked all around to see whowas near, and finally said, When the di-rectors meet again, which indicates theyare not a howling success. S S i The St. Louis Railway Club held itsJune meeting aboard of a steamer bycourtesy of the Wiggins Ferry Company,on which occasion business was com-bined with pleasure in a way entirelynovel to club work. The paper read be-fore the club at that meeting was en-titled Recent Improvements in St. Lou
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he asked a man who was working onone of them when she went out man looked all around to see whowas near, and finally said, When the di-rectors meet again, which indicates theyare not a howling success. S S i The St. Louis Railway Club held itsJune meeting aboard of a steamer bycourtesy of the Wiggins Ferry Company,on which occasion business was com-bined with pleasure in a way entirelynovel to club work. The paper read be-fore the club at that meeting was en-titled Recent Improvements in St. LouisFerries, and the management of theabove ferry company did a very gracefulthing in e-xtending their hospitalities tothe club on its consideration of a subjectdirectly in touch with their from the refreshments served, theopportunities given the members to in-spect the diflerent railway lines enteringSt. Louis on both sides of the Father ofWaters, made the June meeting a daythat the club will not soon forget. Septeiiilicr, 1S98. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 413 *-n^ :^fei3*i:. >f oo . K oc uC < Z wu < Id CO : u<: QZ < en Q< zof- z 414 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. September, 1898. Peculiar Locomotives. Our friend Mr. Henry C. Frazer, in-spector for Westingliouse Air-BrakeCompany at San Francisco, Cal., sendsus photographs of two old-timers hefinds on the Pacific slope. They are theproperty of the Oakland Nail Works,Oakland, Cal., and have not been usedsince the mills burnt down, about fiveyears ago. He says: The engine with the single pair ofdriving wheels was built by M. W. Bald-win, at Philadelphia, some time in theforties. The writer of this remembersthis engine as far back as 1854. The en-gine was then running on a little railroadin Lancaster County, Pa., which wascalled the Strasburg Railroad, and wasabout four miles long, connecting Stras-burg with Leaman Place, a station onthe Pennsylvania Railroad. The name ofthe engine at that time was the William
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