. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .\T S.\N length, a stranger cannot fail to bestruck with the clocklike exactness ofthe arrival and departure of stories we have heard of Westerntrains running four or five days behindtime fall into their proper province asromances in view of our experience onthe Santa Fe. An Eastern watch as itfalls behind time as we approach theland of the setting sun can be safelyset by watching the names of the sta-tions and referring to the Santa Fetime tables. To one
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .\T S.\N length, a stranger cannot fail to bestruck with the clocklike exactness ofthe arrival and departure of stories we have heard of Westerntrains running four or five days behindtime fall into their proper province asromances in view of our experience onthe Santa Fe. An Eastern watch as itfalls behind time as we approach theland of the setting sun can be safelyset by watching the names of the sta-tions and referring to the Santa Fetime tables. To one having an eye to scenic mar-vels the Santa Fe has wonders pecu-liarly its own. Mountains in purples;)Ieiidor. tlie silvery flash of lake and. AMONG THE WKSTKRX MhN .\T TMK : OF THKCOLORADO & SOUTHERN AT , COL. tra modicum of heat they possessed tothe enclosed steam. Machine f6rging in the blacksmithsshops of the Santa Fe has reached a de-gree of intricacy in design and a per-fection in detail that leaves little forthe finishing machines to do, exceptpolishing. Eccentric rod jaws, linkhangers, and even link saddles aresqueezed into being at one stroke ofthe ponderous machines. Spring bandsare welded and placed loosely on the stream, the far stretching, flower span-gled prairies, the ever changing fan-tasies in azure, damask, emerald andgold, are all over the West, but it isonly on the Santa Fe that you come onthat wonder of wonders. THE GRAND CANYON OF ARIZONA. Like Niagara, you come on the aw-ful scene unexpectedly. The countryis slightly undulating, and suddenlyyou are on the brink of a dread abyss. and the appalled vision is presentedwith a spectacle of natural grandeur atonce beauti
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