. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed a train of loaded flatears on to an embankment near the cityand was standing there quietly supplyingsteam to the busy ballast unloader,which was one of the Lidgerwood type,when all at once the ground gave wayunder the locomotive, and as if volun-teering to assist in filling in the hole,the big engine plunged down about tenfeet. lortuiiately no one was hurt, as theengineer and fireman jumped when theyfelt the teinporary track begin to tender followed, but neither theballast unloade
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed a train of loaded flatears on to an embankment near the cityand was standing there quietly supplyingsteam to the busy ballast unloader,which was one of the Lidgerwood type,when all at once the ground gave wayunder the locomotive, and as if volun-teering to assist in filling in the hole,the big engine plunged down about tenfeet. lortuiiately no one was hurt, as theengineer and fireman jumped when theyfelt the teinporary track begin to tender followed, but neither theballast unloader nor any of the <arswere moved, as one of the couplers atthe front let go in time. The ballastunloader. when supplied with steamfrom another engine, gallantly attemptedto pull the fallen monster out of thehole, but without avail. It, however,broke its cable and dainaged one of itspulley blocks as an evidence of goodfaith, after which the prosaic wreckinggang were called in and put things torights. Lassoed In His Engine to lasso a locomotive, aDowningtown (Pa.) boy nearly caused. INCIDENT IN SOLTH -AFRICAN \V.\R. RAIL REMOVED FROM TR.^CK. American engineers and railroad con- the death of a fireman on the are among the working gangs The lad was in charge of a switch onof nearly every pioneer company in Af- a bridge 130 feet above ground, which 204 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE EXGIXEERIXG May, 1905. is being built for the low-grade freightline. He had been practicing with therope and thought it would be sport tocatch some projection of the fastened one end of the rope to abeam, and as the engine passed castthe loop at it. Just then the fireman situation. The majority of the peopleare finding other employment for themoney they used to spend in publichouses. Outdoor recreation and excur-sions are becoming more popular. It is not to be doubted that this changehas largely, if not entirely, been brought
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