. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ems to get fired, but I guess manyof my engineer readers have experiencedsuch impromptu removal from active ser-vice sometime or other, hence will not do was to accept it as a closed incidentand hie himself away in search of an-other job. I had been running an engine on theroad ten years or more and during thatperiod extremely good fortune had at-tended me, for I had never been laidoff—this was before the days of merit anddemerit marks—censured or even stoodon the carpet and had every reason
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ems to get fired, but I guess manyof my engineer readers have experiencedsuch impromptu removal from active ser-vice sometime or other, hence will not do was to accept it as a closed incidentand hie himself away in search of an-other job. I had been running an engine on theroad ten years or more and during thatperiod extremely good fortune had at-tended me, for I had never been laidoff—this was before the days of merit anddemerit marks—censured or even stoodon the carpet and had every reason tobelieve that the way I had performed myduties—you know we owned our enginesin those days—my job was secure solong as I cared to retain it. Subsequentevents, however, proved that my fanciedsecurity was delusive and that the gen-era! manager was after me so precipi-tantly that a letter of dismissal was tooslow, so he sent the verdict by telegraph. I was pulling passenger on the Easterndivision and on the day in question cameinto Burlington on No. 4, arrivingthere at 10 P. M. My return left. EXPRESS BUFFET CAR, CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAII^WAY. on two six wheel trucks in which everywheel is braked. It is 79 feet long overall and 9 feet 8 inches over the forward or express end has no plat-form, the end construction being madevery solid. The rear platform has theordinary passenger vestibule. The carweighs 94,900 lbs., and is equipped withvery convenient lockers and ice boxesbelow the car floor. The interior view shows the style ofdecoration which has been followed. Theparlor compartment, which occupiesmore than Yi of the car, is car-peted throughout and the drawing roomeffect is heightened by the polished tablein the center with the quaint centerlamp, and the various kinds of chairswhich line both sides. The car islighted both by electricity and is at the far end an electric fan,which is the joy of all travelers, es-pecially in warm weather. The arrang
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