. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iendship for a woman consists in one word—respect. In eastern Siberia, some of the sectionengineers I stayed with could not get a have rigged up for themselves. Theyboard up the cab at the junction of thetender, leaving a narrow doorway for in-gress. Some use sail-cloth, but this lastis generally used by the fireman as a pro-tection while getting at the coal. All the water-towers are boxed in andfires kept going month after month, toprevent any accident from freezing. Thecars have their own stoves. It wo
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iendship for a woman consists in one word—respect. In eastern Siberia, some of the sectionengineers I stayed with could not get a have rigged up for themselves. Theyboard up the cab at the junction of thetender, leaving a narrow doorway for in-gress. Some use sail-cloth, but this lastis generally used by the fireman as a pro-tection while getting at the coal. All the water-towers are boxed in andfires kept going month after month, toprevent any accident from freezing. Thecars have their own stoves. It would berisky to rely on the engine for steam heat;for in case of a break-down in the middleof a gust-swept Siberian plain, the passen-gers would succumb after a few hours. Mileage runs are not long, averaging120 verstas—say 75 miles. Still, it takessome of the trains five or six hours to doeven that. Anything like a through 30-mile speed—even only half a mile perminute—on the trans-Siberian will be anexception, not the rule. The calculationsof overland from Calais to Vladivostok. Pell, Pliiil,. Cipoclah (UralsKTHREE-SPAN BRIDGE ON THE CAMAPA-ZLATOYCT RAILROAD. EASTERN RUSSIA. wife to accompany them from Russia. So,for housekeeping, they would employ awoman of the nearest village, calling her(in Russian) an ekohom, pronouncedekonom, meaning economy—an economicalmanager. I am afraid some of themproved an economic loss. As one of theengineers I put up with had been presenteda fortnight previous with lusty twins(whose lung-expanding squealings in an-other room meant business), I failed tosee where the economy came in. The lawof production teaches us that multiplicitymeans economy; but the engineer alsofailed to see the point, and lookedaghast when I suggested there might bethree next time. HOW ENGINEERS FIGHT THE SIBERIAN COLDIN WINTER. The cabs are ill-provided to keep out theicy blasts of a Siberian winter. What pro-tection there is, the engineer and fireman m fourteen d
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