. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ch cases the doors are nevertightly closed. The top door bolt, eas-ily made and readily worked, is a saverall the time, though it does not saymuch about it. Heroic Greasing of of the funniest descriptions ofrustic heroism that we have noted for that had followed the team. It was a fatdog, and cutting it up hastily he greasedthe tracks with it for several rods downthe sharp grade south of the crossingand drove on his way on a gallop. Onarriving at the greased grade the heavytrain was
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ch cases the doors are nevertightly closed. The top door bolt, eas-ily made and readily worked, is a saverall the time, though it does not saymuch about it. Heroic Greasing of of the funniest descriptions ofrustic heroism that we have noted for that had followed the team. It was a fatdog, and cutting it up hastily he greasedthe tracks with it for several rods downthe sharp grade south of the crossingand drove on his way on a gallop. Onarriving at the greased grade the heavytrain was stopped by the slipping of thewheels, and the trainmen, on lookingfor the cause, discovered the burnedculvert. The surgeon soon got the boyout of all danger, and when the railroadofficials learned how Mr. Henks hadsaved the train, they paid him $3 for thedog. An Old Cuban. The old Cuban locomotive illustratedin the annexed engraving, is one withan interesting history, if it could only befollowed. The engine worked on Cubanrailways for 59 years, from 1843 until1902, when it was laid away for Improving the Engine Shops of theErie. The Erie Railroad Company have suf-fered for years for want of housing ca-pacity for their rolling stock, and forproper repairing facilities. President Un-derwood made a very careful inspectionof the companys shops during a recentjourney, and he determined to appro-priate $1,500,000 for the purchase of toolsand for improving their engine housesand repair shops. Nearly all the shopswhere repairs are carried on will begreatly improved. In order to accommodate the newand heavier locomotives to be used,all the roundhouses are to be en-larged so as to give a uniform depthto the stalls of ninety-five feet, anaverage increase in depth of about tenfeet. The new turntables to be installedat each roundhouse will be eighty feetin length, this enlargement being madenecessary also by the increased size ofthe locomotives. New roundhouses often stalls each are
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