. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . it of a divide ten milesfrom Creston, the evening before, I hadcasually noticed two flat cars loadedwith wood standing on the house track. Well, I started the train from the sta-tion, shutting oflf as we left the yard,and pitched down the grade ahead, per-mitting gravity to propel us some twomiles. A light throttle then took us tothe foot of Creston hill, where the finalchapter began. The hill was some fourmiles in length, moderate in steepness ascompared with the ruling grades, andin climbin
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . it of a divide ten milesfrom Creston, the evening before, I hadcasually noticed two flat cars loadedwith wood standing on the house track. Well, I started the train from the sta-tion, shutting oflf as we left the yard,and pitched down the grade ahead, per-mitting gravity to propel us some twomiles. A light throttle then took us tothe foot of Creston hill, where the finalchapter began. The hill was some fourmiles in length, moderate in steepness ascompared with the ruling grades, andin climbing it fuel economy rather thanspeed was the desideratum eagerlysought. As we ascended the hill I mounted thetank and began mining operations byloosening up the heavy crust of mixedcoal and cinders, sorting out the linksand pins, and shortly before the top ofthe grade was reached the last scrapingsof coal, slack and cinders had passed thefire-box door. Passing the- summit a medium de-scending grade a mile or so in lengthwas before us, then a sharp up-grade lessthan half as long into Creston yard. To. FRJilGHT ENGIXE—TR.\NSC.\.UCASI.\.\ and it occurred to me that as a last re-sort we could appropriate a sufficientsupply for our needs, and acting on theimpulse Ilet the Grimes take a flyingrun through Thayer which easily dis-posed of the grade I had been pull up-Afton hill was a long, hardone, it being the heaviest westboundgrade on the division, but with the leverin the corner and the throttle wide openthe Grimes reached the station. Stopping at the water tank the nextmove was to get our prospective supplyof wood which my optical research failedto locate, and my consternation may beimagined when it was learned that thecars with the much needed fuel had beenpicked up by a passing train during thenight. The last prop being gone noth-ing was left but for us to husband ourresources so far as conditions wouldpermit, and if it was found impossibleto make
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