. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. At this season of the year the equip-ment is taxed to the limit of its ca-pacity, and the locomotives, of whichthere are nearly 100, are doing doubleservice. The principal repair shopsare located at St. Augustine, whereMr. G. A. Miller, the Superintendentof Motive Power, has his offices, andMr. C. D. Vanaman, the Road Fore-man of Engines, also has his head-(luarters. In the summer months, whenthe passenger traffic is not so heavy,the locomotives are thoroughly over-hauled and made ready for the busyseason, which extends from Octobertill May, and it is part
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. At this season of the year the equip-ment is taxed to the limit of its ca-pacity, and the locomotives, of whichthere are nearly 100, are doing doubleservice. The principal repair shopsare located at St. Augustine, whereMr. G. A. Miller, the Superintendentof Motive Power, has his offices, andMr. C. D. Vanaman, the Road Fore-man of Engines, also has his head-(luarters. In the summer months, whenthe passenger traffic is not so heavy,the locomotives are thoroughly over-hauled and made ready for the busyseason, which extends from Octobertill May, and it is particularly gratify-ing to learn that the management isso perfect in its mastery of details thatscarcely a single accident has can be readily imagined that a dis-aster occurring on an elevated roadtraversing what is literally the opensea would be serious in its results, andthe management controls the situationwith skill that is beyond praise. Mr. J. D. Rahner, the genial and popu-lar passenger agent, has issued a series of. LONG Ki:V \I.\DLXT, & i:.\ST its course across the Straits of Floridauntil it nearly reaches Havana in owes its existence to what areknown as the Florida Keys, a seriesof coral reefs that extend southwardand westward from the southern ex-tremity of Florida to a distance ofnearly 100 miles, and at all seasons ofthe year forms one of the most de-lightful trips imaginable, combining as elegant descriptive pamphlets illustrativeof this wonderland, and to those who feelthe rigor of our Northern winter we can-not imagine anything to be compared toa trip to this delightful region. Theyshould secure copies of the booklets, andthen secure passage to the land of flowers,where the sunny days are a green andgolden delight and when the nights arerobed in still and starr> splendor. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. January, 1912. Hello Bill—What Do You Know? W. E. Wood, Chicago. A seemingly rude but common saluta-tion betw
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