. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . that would get tired just like achild once in a few months, and do wdiatwe might, coax and tease it as best wecould, it would not make time. Give ita lay-off in the roundhouse for two orthree days, and. gosh! how it would takethe bit in its teeth and just go! Once whenmy engine was getting a tired spell and Ihad been losing time for a week, I wascalled up to the superintendents office inLittle Rock, Ark. coddle and work over the machinery asmuch as with a living being. Many ain engineer will stick to an
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . that would get tired just like achild once in a few months, and do wdiatwe might, coax and tease it as best wecould, it would not make time. Give ita lay-off in the roundhouse for two orthree days, and. gosh! how it would takethe bit in its teeth and just go! Once whenmy engine was getting a tired spell and Ihad been losing time for a week, I wascalled up to the superintendents office inLittle Rock, Ark. coddle and work over the machinery asmuch as with a living being. Many ain engineer will stick to an old,rickety locomotive after it has become soworn and old as to be dangerous, becausehe cant bear to give up his old suppose the monotony of the dead level,brown and barren plains and the hundredsof miles the Western railroad men travelwithout seeing a village or even a huddleof houses makes them more attached totheir engines. Old Hank Turley, who ran on theCentral Pacific from Ogden to Reno fortwenty-five years, would never sleep any-where else except in his engine cab when. STEAM SAND DRYER. How does it come that you are doingso poorly with that locomotive? said the best we have down this way anda fine one, too. Its tired, said I, and needs a rest. Well, you ought to have seen how thatman haw-hawed at me. He thought it oneof my jokes. I offered to bet a suit ofclothes that no one could get better timeout of her than I, and he took the bet. Heput old Roger Adams—a great engineer,by the way—on in my place one day, andthe engine came in half an hour late withthe express train that night. Then Ibegged him to give the machine a simplerest for three days. The Superintendentrode in the cab out of Little Rock withme after the rest, and I shall never forgethow surprised he looked when he sawhow the engine slid over the rails thatmorning. T never would have believed it. saidhe. I noticed that he gave lots of other en-gines rests after that. Barbers tell me thatthei
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