Railway and Locomotive Engineering . IOK CIIK ox\T WKSTFRV dawn after the darkness. It was likespring coming after a hard winter bring-ing flowers like jewels on her arms. Themoney was distributed along the line inthe form of permanent old track was greatly improved to thetune of $11,000 per mile along the ^00 miles. Steel bridges sprang intoexistence. Ninety pound steel rails tookthe place of the lighter worn out mate-rial. Wooden coaches gave way to new-steel passenger cars. Steel freight carscame into service. High-powered mod-ern locomotives, electric safe
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . IOK CIIK ox\T WKSTFRV dawn after the darkness. It was likespring coming after a hard winter bring-ing flowers like jewels on her arms. Themoney was distributed along the line inthe form of permanent old track was greatly improved to thetune of $11,000 per mile along the ^00 miles. Steel bridges sprang intoexistence. Ninety pound steel rails tookthe place of the lighter worn out mate-rial. Wooden coaches gave way to new-steel passenger cars. Steel freight carscame into service. High-powered mod-ern locomotives, electric safety devices,telephone dispatching, and all the minordetails of a first class railroad came sud-denly in operation. This was not all. Every village andluimlet along the rejuvenated road seemedto catch the vitalizing influence. Villagesblossomed into towns, and towns intocities. The great travelling public, keento appreciate good service, came clusteringinto the palatial cars. The service scenucltn keep pace with tlie equipment. If the. NEW UNION ST.\TION. .ST. , MINN., UNDER CONSTRUCTION and earnings were small, as is, or as was,the experience with all railroads. In thecase of the Chicago Great Western the unrecognized and now the change come. It need hardly l)e slated what the change was. It was not what is corn- men were not all new, there were newmethods. The spiritual and intellectualtone of the road was lifted to a higher September, 1916. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGIXEERIXG. 291 plane of moral and physical activity. Reg-ular meetings of officers and employeeswere held. The dumb became best thoughts of the brightest andbest minds ran through the service likeelectricity. The lamp of hope and ofcourage was lit in the dark brow of in-dustry, and the honest pride that comesfrom success well-earned shone in theeyes of the commonest laborer. Dispatchwalked hand in hand with was unity of action, and harmonyran along the line pleasant as when themorni
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