. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . reserve of coal. India, Aus-tralia and South Africa will come to theaid of the British Empire; but the UnitedStates must become the center of theworlds coal supply, to be. in the far fut-ure, perhaps supplanted by China andJapan. How these changes will affect therelative sea-power of nations it would berash to attempt to predict. 464 LOCOMOTIVE EXCINEERIXG October, 1899. An Old Time Table. We have been favored by Mr. GeorgeM. Bennett, of Aurora, Ind., with a photo-graph of an old time table in his posses
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . reserve of coal. India, Aus-tralia and South Africa will come to theaid of the British Empire; but the UnitedStates must become the center of theworlds coal supply, to be. in the far fut-ure, perhaps supplanted by China andJapan. How these changes will affect therelative sea-power of nations it would berash to attempt to predict. 464 LOCOMOTIVE EXCINEERIXG October, 1899. An Old Time Table. We have been favored by Mr. GeorgeM. Bennett, of Aurora, Ind., with a photo-graph of an old time table in his posses-sion, which is reproduced with this. Itneeds no explanation, the date and thetime in handwriting tell their own story. Mr. Bennett is the veteran of the Balti-more & Ohio Southwestern, being prettyclose to seventy-five years old. He hasrun on the road mentioned over twenty-three years, and began sitting on theright-hand side about forty-three yearsago. He can be seen in the cab of thecompound consolidation shown. In allhis railroading he has never had an acci-dent worth 1 The petty and foolish opposition thatearly railroad builders were made to en-counter seems ridiculous nowadays, andone of the strangest efforts, in that lineperhaps was that made against the con-struction of the first road in Germany,between Furth and Nuremburg. in 1836,when the Bavarian Medical College cameout in a pronunciamento as follows: MR. BENNETT S PRESENT ENGINE. Conveyance by means of a carriage pro-pelled by steam ought to be prohibited inthe interests of the public health, for therapid motion cannot fail to create a dis-ease of the brain among the passengers,which may be classed as a species of de-lirium furiosum. Even if travelers are Cincinnati and Chicago 4ir IMe Raifrcad, u Uli. jCa 11 , XORTH M^ STATIONS (/ /iGi ^ 001 NG 80DTK axntitrjox!!... em iiAiirji-rf^ws,. • -I LI *iniMiio:cv CI :cK ., UIDDLKli, VN . -(LYroRK ASDEdSO ■. Jf HiANKI :■ J • v\xi-s
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