. Railway mechanical engineer . er would come to look upim the appearance of anygreat number of American Ijuilt locomotives—and particu-larly of American design—as an exception, not a rule. Descending the \\est coast the lirst important railwaysencountered are the various government owned short linesof Colombia, the nucleus of what will probably be, some-day, a unified system. Further south is the narrow sjageGuayaquil & ()uito line operated by an American companybetween the two ])Qints named, in ICcuador. As neither ofthe aforementioned roads present significant differences inequipment or man
. Railway mechanical engineer . er would come to look upim the appearance of anygreat number of American Ijuilt locomotives—and particu-larly of American design—as an exception, not a rule. Descending the \\est coast the lirst important railwaysencountered are the various government owned short linesof Colombia, the nucleus of what will probably be, some-day, a unified system. Further south is the narrow sjageGuayaquil & ()uito line operated by an American companybetween the two ])Qints named, in ICcuador. As neither ofthe aforementioned roads present significant differences inequipment or manner of operation, at least on a scale com-parable Willi that which fallows, a descri|)tion of them isomitted. The Railways of Peru Among the very interesting contributions to the exceptionpreviously mentioned, is the equijjment on the lines in Peru,controlled by the Peruvian Corjwration, a Briti,sh institu-tion throughout, whose directorate resides in London. railroader would feel perfectly at home here, for. The General Managers Private Car. Built Complete at the Arequipa Shops with the e-vception of a few light side tank suhurljan loco-motives of British design, the entire equipment is of Amer-ican manufacture and style. For convenience in this descrip-tion the corporations holdings can be said to lie locatedin three districts. The first comprises some lines operatednorth of Callao—unrelated shoit feeders from mines orsugar plantations, to the coast. The central of Peru, run-ning northwest from Callao to a point on the roof of theworld, called Oroyo, thence southwest a short toHuancayo, makes up the second .section; and the Southernof Peru from MoUendo, inward to Lake Titicaca to Cuzcoin one direction and La Paz in another, carrying its freightand passengers across the lake in its own steamers, com-poses the third section. Aside from the shortness of the trains whi( h are limitedto four cars by the average lengths of 21 switch backs tra-versed in t
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