. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing prop-i rties of the various coals used by the ErieRailroad, and is likely to result in ar-rangements whereby the purchase pricewill be based upon the quality of the coal,a very important reform. August, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 359 The Susquehanna Shops of the Erie Railroad The length of the journey from NewYork to Chicago over the Erie Railroadis exactly one thousand miles, as near asit can be figured, and there is not astretch of five miles on the whole routethat a trave
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing prop-i rties of the various coals used by the ErieRailroad, and is likely to result in ar-rangements whereby the purchase pricewill be based upon the quality of the coal,a very important reform. August, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 359 The Susquehanna Shops of the Erie Railroad The length of the journey from NewYork to Chicago over the Erie Railroadis exactly one thousand miles, as near asit can be figured, and there is not astretch of five miles on the whole routethat a traveler could regard as tame orlacking in scenic attractions. The firsttwo hundred mileSj however, which trav-erse the scenes watered by the Passaic, By Angus Sinclair York in 1832, but work was not begununtil 1836. The original eastern terminuswas Piermont, on the Hudson River, thatinconvenient spot having been decidedupon through the force of politicaland proprietory pulls. The same in-fluence located large shops at Pier-mont for the repairing of rollingstock, and some bargain was made but *. -^i^ii«f*.«%^r ijimmTi. VIEW OF SUSQUEHANNA IN 185 the Ramapo, the Delaware and the Sus-quehanna rivers, are so rich in naturalattractions that I doubt if scenery equalin grandeur can be found on the samedistance in any country. Some parts onthe Delaware division may be fitlydescribed in Scotts eulogy of Scotlandsmost famous scenes when the poet ex-claims : 0, Caledonia! stern and luild,Meet nurse for a [>oetie ehild!Land of brown heath and shaggy ivood,Land of the mountain and the Hood. The pleasure of witnessing the magnifi-cent scenes that greet the eye on everyturn through this most romantic regionmust excuse flights away from the moreprosaic thoughts of a man whose mindis running not upon fancies of the imagi-nation, but upon the details of an estab-lishment reared in a mountain pass onthe side of a mighty river for the pur-pose of regenerating worn-out locomo-tives and dil
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