. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ia in the earlyfifties, is still preserved among the wilder-nesses of burocratic archives at Peterburg,and some therefrom would makeinteresting—and perhaps quaint—readingat the present day. Thus can it be truthfully said (althoughno Russian will admit it) that the veryfirst officially recorded inceptors of thegreat Trans-Siberian Railroad route of to-day were two Britishers. OPERATING FREIGHT TRAINS ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN IN MIDWINTER. Freight-train crews in Siberia have thehardest l
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ia in the earlyfifties, is still preserved among the wilder-nesses of burocratic archives at Peterburg,and some therefrom would makeinteresting—and perhaps quaint—readingat the present day. Thus can it be truthfully said (althoughno Russian will admit it) that the veryfirst officially recorded inceptors of thegreat Trans-Siberian Railroad route of to-day were two Britishers. OPERATING FREIGHT TRAINS ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN IN MIDWINTER. Freight-train crews in Siberia have thehardest lot of any railway employes inrailwaydom, while the passenger-traincrews fare all right. Would it be believed,such a thing as a caboose is unknown inSiberia in connection with a freight train! der such conditions? Why, it is an effortfor some of them to make their half-frozen hands and arms grasp at the brakes,on the engine whistling therefor. What trainmen in America would workunder such conditions, with no warm ca-boose to resort to? The lay public littleknow the amount of comfort that can be. Antoszebich, phot,, Yfa, Pocia GREAT SIBERIAN RAILROAD- ( THt ,\SIATIC SLOPE OF THE URAL RANGE.
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