. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . mpany have placed an orderwith the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-facturing Company for fifteen quadrupleequipments of type No. S57-A, 140 with double end type HLF con-trol. These equipments are to be placedin high speed passenger express servicebetween Chicago and Milwaukee. Thecars will be arranged for train operation. 172 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. May, 1915. Tour of the Sunny South The story is familiar to mc of a personwho wanted to make a journey on aSouthern railway, g
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . mpany have placed an orderwith the Westinghouse Electric & Manu-facturing Company for fifteen quadrupleequipments of type No. S57-A, 140 with double end type HLF con-trol. These equipments are to be placedin high speed passenger express servicebetween Chicago and Milwaukee. Thecars will be arranged for train operation. 172 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. May, 1915. Tour of the Sunny South The story is familiar to mc of a personwho wanted to make a journey on aSouthern railway, getting to a station ingood season and asking the station mas-ter when the next train for Washingtonwould arrive. Which days train do you want? in-quired the agent. By ANGUS SINCLAIR which is a system over 1,200 miles long,operating about 15,000 cars hy 500 loco-motives. We did not finish our journeyon that line, but changed to the SouthernRailway at Chattanooga, which took ustn Jacksonville, Fla. The journey fromCincinnati to Jacksonville may be regard-ed as the territory between the temperate. TRAVELING THROUGH THE ORANGE GROVES OF FLORIDA. Todays train, of course, was thereply. Well, it will come along bye and bye,was the information given. Shortly afterwards a train arrived andthe passenger made a rush to get on boardwhen he was stopped by the agent shout-ing : That is not your train. When the train had gone, the would-bepassenger wanted to know what train thatwas. Why, replied the station master, thatwas yesterdays train, and you said thatyou wanted to take this days train. That was the kind of story he toldabout the old-time railway habits of theSouth, and it was founded on fact; butthings are changed for the better nowa-days. The cold winds of New York make metremble and shiver, as Hood says, andof late years I have run away from themand taken refuge in the Sunny South,with Florida as a lingering place. Itturned out this year that the weather ofMarch in our resort of comf
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