. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . IGNAL BRIDGE AND TOWER AT OAKLAND, CAL. leaf and the beauty of the whole smilingregion makes one wish to forget thesmoke and noise of our Eastern cities fora glimpse of this garden oi the other illustrations show the admirableblock signal installations along the interior of the signal tower at Oak-land and the interlocking signal bridge atthe same place are shown, and they forminteresting examples of what may bemost appropriately called the noble art oftrain protection as pr
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . IGNAL BRIDGE AND TOWER AT OAKLAND, CAL. leaf and the beauty of the whole smilingregion makes one wish to forget thesmoke and noise of our Eastern cities fora glimpse of this garden oi the other illustrations show the admirableblock signal installations along the interior of the signal tower at Oak-land and the interlocking signal bridge atthe same place are shown, and they forminteresting examples of what may bemost appropriately called the noble art oftrain protection as practiced on the Sun-set Route. The hitter were generally of thefossilized barnacle class that havesome mysterious attachment to theboard of directors of every rail-road. An air of importance dwellsaround these men and as long as theyremain silent they pass for wise men. Assoon as they begin speaking their imbecil-ity becomes apparent. As a rule theyknow as much about the mechanical ap-pliances used on railways as they knowabout the rings of Saturn. Sometimestheir minds are strangely mercurial, run-. ON LINE SOUTHERN PACIFIC. course the shelf has a hole in it where asmall man can with difficulty squeeze hishead and shoulders through and make anineffectual attempt to clean out the lowerflues that become choked in a few and cumbrous, and thrown aside i86 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING May, 1908. a hundred times, there is the germ ofperpetual youth about it. Like Banquosghost, it will not down. Of course thosegifted inventors have no knowledge thatthe same thing has been invented andpatented before. If they do. they act asif supremely unconscious of each have the nerve to pretend that theynever heard of such a thing before andnobody has the nerve to contradict the assassins of Julius Caesar, theyare all honorable men. This was the kind of man and the kindof invention that invaded the shop, andBilly and two helpers were put on thejob. Billy began
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