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. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n parted, the engineer was usuallythe master of ceremonies on such occa-sions, so if the matter be regarded in thisway. the digression may be pardoned. I he Troy & Boston, of which it has beensaid never had any track at all, but onlytwo streaks of rust and a right ofway, could probably furnish as many in-teresting reminiscences in regard to phen-omenal -peed, hairbreadth escapes andgetting something out of nothing as anyrailroad in the country. Our narrativedates back to 72, at a time when ra
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n parted, the engineer was usuallythe master of ceremonies on such occa-sions, so if the matter be regarded in thisway. the digression may be pardoned. I he Troy & Boston, of which it has beensaid never had any track at all, but onlytwo streaks of rust and a right ofway, could probably furnish as many in-teresting reminiscences in regard to phen-omenal -peed, hairbreadth escapes andgetting something out of nothing as anyrailroad in the country. Our narrativedates back to 72, at a time when railroad-ing, if not in its infancy, certainh, wasnot out of its teens, not, at hast, if il ismeasured by development rather than by The engine that could handle twelve was nothing uncommon when a runner cars in good shape was the exception and that knew his business put a bum engine not the rule and the runner that had pos- in such good shape that some other fellow session of her was as satisfied with his was very anxious to get hold of her for good fortune as he was jealous of the his own C. & TYPE ENGINE. engineer that was pulling wires to gelher away with him. Our narrative atthis point leads to the mention of a partic-ular engine, a soft coal burner, inside con-nected, called the John Paine, Xo. of deference for the engineer, towhom this good-in-its-day locomotivepassed, we will witllhi Id his name, hut asit will be necessan to refer to him fre-! ntly in what follows, lie will he identi-
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