. St. Nicholas [serial] . AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE (AT THE RIGHT) WINNING IN A TUG OF WAR 1042 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLK [Sept. in normal service, a twelve-car train weighing 960tons trailing against a grade of two per cent,at a speed of twenty-fi\e miles per hour. It isalso designed so that when coasting down grade,it will generate quantities of current and send itback to the generating stations, where it will beavailable for projielling other locomotives. Robert H. Moulton. A TILTED GARDEN The commuter who digs his bit in a level andwell-cleared plot may learn from our picture whathard
. St. Nicholas [serial] . AN ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE (AT THE RIGHT) WINNING IN A TUG OF WAR 1042 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLK [Sept. in normal service, a twelve-car train weighing 960tons trailing against a grade of two per cent,at a speed of twenty-fi\e miles per hour. It isalso designed so that when coasting down grade,it will generate quantities of current and send itback to the generating stations, where it will beavailable for projielling other locomotives. Robert H. Moulton. A TILTED GARDEN The commuter who digs his bit in a level andwell-cleared plot may learn from our picture whathard work is. From a ten-foot rise above theroadway, the hill rises at a stiff grade, and fourterraces were required in order to get enoughfairly level land to work. The material for thewooden retaining walls was not as costly as mightappear, for it was hea\y, second-hand lumber and knots and nails did not bar it from use, so it costbut a fraction of the price of new lumljer. Theposts were charred before being set in the grou
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