. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ch wasquite a difficult problem on account ofthe lay of the ground. The tracks andMississippi River being on one sideand a rock bluff being about two hun- dred and fifty feet high on the otherside. The machinery in these shopswas run wholly by electricity. Theseare a few incidents connected with mylong and varied career of railroadwork. F. A. Chase. Los Angeles, Cal. Silver Spike Ceremony. Editor: Yesterday, Nov. 22, being the birthdayof Guatemalas President, don ManuelEstrada Cabrera, one of
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ch wasquite a difficult problem on account ofthe lay of the ground. The tracks andMississippi River being on one sideand a rock bluff being about two hun- dred and fifty feet high on the otherside. The machinery in these shopswas run wholly by electricity. Theseare a few incidents connected with mylong and varied career of railroadwork. F. A. Chase. Los Angeles, Cal. Silver Spike Ceremony. Editor: Yesterday, Nov. 22, being the birthdayof Guatemalas President, don ManuelEstrada Cabrera, one of the features ofits celebration was the driving of thesilver spike which signified the inaugu-ration and commencement of the Guate-mala Centrals new line, which is to con-nect Guatemala with Mexico by spike was driven at Las Cruces, astation on the Occidental division of theGuatemala Central, 137 miles fromGuatemala City. The celebration wasunder the direction of acting generalmanager Col. W. P. Tisdcl, and was par-ticipated in by members of the presi-dents cabinet, the consul general and. MAZATENANGO STATION, GUATAMALARAILWAY. minister of the United States and othersof the diplomatic corps. The new lineu ill run from Las Cruces, passing throughCoatepeque to Ayutla, a distance of 32miles, where it will connect with thePan-American Railroad. A month agothe Central people purchased the OcosRailroad, a short line running from thePort of Ocos on the Pacific side, inlanda distance of twenty-two miles. InApril, 1909, the Central purchased con-trolling interest in the Occidental Rail-road, which with the addition of theOcos gives them three seaports on thePacific coast. The opening of the new line betweenLas Cruces and Ayutla will give Gua-temala, N. S., what they have longwaited for, connection with the UnitedStates and Mexico by rail, and thus givethe people a quicker and more directmarket for their products. It will alsotap a portion of the richest part ofGuatemala, and th
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