. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . white coal of the tunnel unites in friendly commer-cial intercourse the peoples of two diverse-nationalities. It is just one hundredyears since the completion of the Sim-plon road by the great Napoleon, but thenew highway does not echo to the trampof armed men. In 1806 Napoleon wasalmost at the zenith of his power, withhis war-loving ambition still unsatisfied,the practical embodiment of the despoticmilitary spirit, sinister and year 1906 has seen success crown thepat
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . white coal of the tunnel unites in friendly commer-cial intercourse the peoples of two diverse-nationalities. It is just one hundredyears since the completion of the Sim-plon road by the great Napoleon, but thenew highway does not echo to the trampof armed men. In 1806 Napoleon wasalmost at the zenith of his power, withhis war-loving ambition still unsatisfied,the practical embodiment of the despoticmilitary spirit, sinister and year 1906 has seen success crown thepatient labor of applied science, devotedto a constructive work, as noble in itsconception as it is in its grim glory of-battlefields may haplypass away, but the road from Valais toPiedmont will endure. Peace hath hervictories no less renowned than war. Reminiscences of an Old-Timer. Bv Shandy a man goes into the graveyardof the past to resurrect dead memoriesand again animate them with life thetrip may not yield much pleasure, for, ifhis head of hair has taken on lifes. LOCOMOTIVE USED IN THE SIMPLON TUNNEL. compressor supplies 14/: cubic feet ofair per minute at a pressure of no four cylindrical reservoirs which aremounted two and two at each end of thelocomotive. All the compressed airpipes are fitted with return valves sothat they may be operated from eitherof the two controllers, so that if either of these is not in order the locomotivecan be driven from the other. autumnal hues, he is likely to be re-minded of those glorious times whenhopes n-ere high and the nectared wineof the long ago had a flavor to thetaste of his earlier years never to beequaled by a later vintage. Among all the occupations whicha young man looked for, say 30 yearsago, there -was none he so earnestlyhankered after as railroading, par- ticularly as engineman. Think ofwhen you were a boy and you stoodconvenient to some railway crossing towatch the engine da
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