. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ndvery queer in the eyes of his fellow work-ers from the fact that a hard word fromthe important individual mentioned wouldcause him to wear a long face for a week. Hodges was often severely censured byhis comrades, the other jackies, just be-cause he got along so well with all the en-gineers whom they had pronounced oldcranks and not fit to ride on the same en-gine with (the D. L. & S., by the way,having more than its share of disgruntledpullers of the throttle). Every railroaddivision of a hundred mile
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ndvery queer in the eyes of his fellow work-ers from the fact that a hard word fromthe important individual mentioned wouldcause him to wear a long face for a week. Hodges was often severely censured byhis comrades, the other jackies, just be-cause he got along so well with all the en-gineers whom they had pronounced oldcranks and not fit to ride on the same en-gine with (the D. L. & S., by the way,having more than its share of disgruntledpullers of the throttle). Every railroaddivision of a hundred miles or less hasone or more engineers who are the terrorof firemen and foremen generally; but itis safe to say that no matter how unfavor-ably they might have regarded Hodges onthe start, he eventually won them over,and simply by humoring their pet hobbies. For instance, one day when firing extra,he was sent out with old Pap Burns,who ran tne 837 on the main line peculiarity about old Burns was thathe was helpless. He wanted his firemanto almost breathe for him, and in tb^se. FIG. 2. OLD PENXSVLVANI.\ ENGINE. wheels, the whole ornamented with neatstripes and letters of yellow, supplementedby small lines of vermillion. In this re-built form she ran in Altoona yard, untilfinally put out of service about the latterpart of 1866 or early in 1867. C. H. , Pa. Among the appliances recently placedby the Buflfalo Forge Company was anorder for two fans having direct-attacheddouble-upright double-acting enclosed en-gines of the United States Navy type,which was sent to Johannesburg. SouthAfrica. days of brotherhoods and our rights itis very hard to secure an accommodatingindividual even in a fireman. So old Burns seldom had the same manmore than one trip. Of course his regularfireman knew how to take him andhumored him in his whims; but when theformer had the misfortune to strain hisback, necessitating his laying down theshovel for a long time, there was a diff
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