. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. etting up three the winter nights to replenish fad- pany erected a saw mill there, and thelogs reached the market in a reasonabletime, and there are now 75 mills alongthe line. Then the railroad took up thequestion of waste timber, and in a fewmonths the kindling wood industry blos-somed into being, and traffic •\mong the items credited to the railroadmay be mentioned six large mills wherespools for cotton are made calling forncarlv 1,000 car loads of freight a year. 352 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, 1912. Now it is basebal
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. etting up three the winter nights to replenish fad- pany erected a saw mill there, and thelogs reached the market in a reasonabletime, and there are now 75 mills alongthe line. Then the railroad took up thequestion of waste timber, and in a fewmonths the kindling wood industry blos-somed into being, and traffic •\mong the items credited to the railroadmay be mentioned six large mills wherespools for cotton are made calling forncarlv 1,000 car loads of freight a year. 352 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, 1912. Now it is baseball bats and woodon dishesand teacups. In agriculture it may betruthfully stated that no state in theUnion rivals Maine for the quantity andexcellence of its the motive power and roll- of the employees generally, representingthe best type of .American manhood. Attached are two smaller illustrationsintroduced not so much as showing glimps-es of the romantic and beautiful scenerythrough which the road largely passes,. Iercival Farquhar, with the aid of apowerful syndicate of European and.\merican financiers, a further stage wasreached on August 19, a payment of$15,000,000 having been made to him bythe syndicate for $15,000,000 6 per cent,preference shares of the Argentine Rail-ways Company, an undertaking registeredin the State of Maine some months agoin connection with Mr. Farquhars company has $30,000,000 ordinaryshares in addition to the above-mentionedpreference shares. WHERE THE ., MlUWIAIXITS TERM1N.\L. X THE \V.\Y TO ing stock, our frontispiece illustrationshows that the equipment is of the ad-vanced twentieth century type. The pic-ture was taken a few miles out of Bangorand shows the regular train No. 3, whichis run from Bangor to Caribou. Thereare about 100 locomotives and cars of all kinds. Ten wheelersseem to be in much favor in the motivepower department. The freedom fromserious breakages or ac
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