. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . us by Anschan, an engineer on the letter which accompanied the photo-graph reads: Enclosed under separate cover pleasefmd views taken on a new section whichhas been opened on our north coast line,thus making a grand trunk of 327 miles new extension was opened. The engineis the one I have had for the last fouryears, and the party in the front is yourhumble servant. ^ i ^ On the Panama Railroad. They have discovered a manganesemine in Panama which is more valuableto its owners than the aver
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . us by Anschan, an engineer on the letter which accompanied the photo-graph reads: Enclosed under separate cover pleasefmd views taken on a new section whichhas been opened on our north coast line,thus making a grand trunk of 327 miles new extension was opened. The engineis the one I have had for the last fouryears, and the party in the front is yourhumble servant. ^ i ^ On the Panama Railroad. They have discovered a manganesemine in Panama which is more valuableto its owners than the average gold John K. Cowen, receiver of the forest-covered rolling lands of the UnitedStates rather than of the tropics. Thereare few palm trees, though you now andthen pass a banana plantation. You goby villages of thatched huts and the build-ings of the canal people are everywhereto be seen. The road runs very smoothlyand the track is well kept. It is a 5-footgage equipped with lignum vitae ties and56-pound rails. These ties are about theonly ones, except iron, which will with-. SCENES ON QUEENSLAND RAILWAY. north from our capital city of Brisbane,•with a southern main line which connectswith New South Wales of 232 miles—total, 559 miles of main line, with a num-ber of branch lines varying from 19 to400 miles long. The iron structures, Imay say, have all been made here in ourown town of Maryborough, and may beof interest to some of your readers. The live-stock special train was takenat the head of our old road before the Baltimore & Ohio, is the principal visit was recently paid to the localityby Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, who has pub-lished a vivid and interesting descriptionof what he saw. Of a trip on the PanamaRailroad he writes: The ride across the isthmus is a de-lightful one. The country, after you passthe few miles of lowland on the Atlanticside, rises into many wooded hills, andthe distant views make vou think of the stand the attack of the wood-eating
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