. The locomotive engineer . ther cumlx-r-Bomc and expensive proccas aa compared wilhmodem transfer jacks. The machine shop is small, fairiy well equippedwith tools, but most of them would be grey-headedif they had hair. The power is derived from an old-time, longstroke, independent cut-off engine that has been inits present position and in charge of the same mansince 1852. They have some modem tools in the boiler shop,and had, at the time of our visit, a couple of newboilers completed for new switch engines; theseshops have built some fifteen new engines in the posttwo years. The company build
. The locomotive engineer . ther cumlx-r-Bomc and expensive proccas aa compared wilhmodem transfer jacks. The machine shop is small, fairiy well equippedwith tools, but most of them would be grey-headedif they had hair. The power is derived from an old-time, longstroke, independent cut-off engine that has been inits present position and in charge of the same mansince 1852. They have some modem tools in the boiler shop,and had, at the time of our visit, a couple of newboilers completed for new switch engines; theseshops have built some fifteen new engines in the posttwo years. The company build their own cars and coaches,and a new point shop iwenlly erected is espeiiallywell arranged; tracks are laid over very shallowpits of cement, the cement extending outside theroil far enough to let all drip from sides of car fallupon it, inst^ of the floor. The cars stand dosetoscther. and there are two rows of posts betweeneach Iraek; on these posts are arranged simple fold-ing brackets that allow ilie painiera to fix their. Tandalia Shops. The sbojis of the Vandalia line, localeil at TcrreHaute, are old ones, and not out of the general runof shops built in a hurry 25 or 30 years ago in thethen West. The roumlhouso is a complete circle, containing80 stalls, and has an ojien center; most of theroundhouses through that section of the countyare cursed wilh a pall of darkness in the shape ofu covered center. The road is remarkably freeof old locomotives in road serrice, as compared withother roads of Usage. Must of the new looonio-tivGi are Pittsburgh build, and heavj- IO-wh«-lersarc used on freight, old scraps for switching pur-poses. The road uses Ihe Janey coupler on passen-ger ears. Weslinghouse brakes and signals. Theerecting shop is separate from the machine and il(( ~Sa|iiMT painting stages at any height, anti the fuU lengthof the car. On some of the locomotives Cooke bell ringers areused, and on others the White bell ringer—a deviceworked bv air. Some of the engines are
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