. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . riginal form. The .Xntelope re-mained in service for many years onthe Merrimack branch. Last but not the least in this notablelist may be mentioned the ThomasWest. Named after a prominentBoston & Maine official of the earlydays; it remained in service well intothe nineties and at the time of its re-tirement was the last surviving insideconnected machine in this vicinity. The writer is indebted to Mr. L. , a frequent contributor of in-teresting reminicences in the columnsof R.\
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . riginal form. The .Xntelope re-mained in service for many years onthe Merrimack branch. Last but not the least in this notablelist may be mentioned the ThomasWest. Named after a prominentBoston & Maine official of the earlydays; it remained in service well intothe nineties and at the time of its re-tirement was the last surviving insideconnected machine in this vicinity. The writer is indebted to Mr. L. , a frequent contributor of in-teresting reminicences in the columnsof R.\ and Locomotive Engineer-ing, for much of the information in thisarticle. September, lyog. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 409 The Development of the Railroad Cinder Pit By Augus Sinclair When locomotives first came into usean apple of discord was at once thrownbetween the Mechanical and the Mainte-nance of Way departments in the shape of question of unrequited labor, the over-grown piles of cinders sometimes inter-fering with the movement of engine andcars outside of roundhouses. The first. ERIE CINDER PIT SHOWING WELL FROM WHICH ASHES ARE TAKEN. cinders discharged from the ash pans oflocomotives. The locomotive men werefree and easy in the way they poured hotashes and cinders upon the road bed,while the track men became furious atthe nuisance which burned up ties andimposed upon them the necessity for dis-posing of stuff they had no use for. Those who can remember the appear-ance of motive power terminals of earlydays, recall tracks laden with heaps ofashes like the burrow heaps of a prairiedog settlement. The first reform was thelocating of cinder pits at certain points,which for a time formed another sourceof discord, as the locomotive men heldthat it was the duty of the track men toempty these pits and the track men saidthey would be haggised if they would orsomething equivalent. A Punic war aroseen this question and long years of squab-bling passed before a settlement
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