. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d of cars used on our ele-vated railways, there is a man on eachplatform ready to open the gate as soon asthe train stops and to shout to the passen-gers to hurry up in getting off and people are inclined to resent theairy manner in which guards order passen-gers to step lively, but the practice is a de-cided stimulant to rapid transit. i i ^ Wheels in the Wrong Place. .When I was serving my apprentice-ship, .said the Traveling Engineer, as heput his feet on the seat opposite, we hada crusty old
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d of cars used on our ele-vated railways, there is a man on eachplatform ready to open the gate as soon asthe train stops and to shout to the passen-gers to hurry up in getting off and people are inclined to resent theairy manner in which guards order passen-gers to step lively, but the practice is a de-cided stimulant to rapid transit. i i ^ Wheels in the Wrong Place. .When I was serving my apprentice-ship, .said the Traveling Engineer, as heput his feet on the seat opposite, we hada crusty old M. M. who liked to appearthe embodiment of all mechanical skilland knowledge to us youngsters. Henever asked anybodys advice, always hadan answer and a way to do things, and woebetide the mechanic who, by wonl or look,intimated that his way was not the best. We had several builds of old-fashionedengines, each a law unto itself in a greatmeasure, yet there were two kinds ofRogers—a 15 x 22 with a 4>^-foot wheel anda 16 X 24 with a 5-foot wheel. Well, in time one of the smaller ones. Caledonian Railway Shops. The Forge. engine was needed and our road did notboast of a pattern-maker, or a foundry, andthe engine-builder was months away. When the foreman and the gang bosswere figuring on it the old man camehome and the case was laid before him. John Dolittle, said he, severely, you Dolittle got off where he could get anice side view and called Seeder over. Mr. Seeder, said he, aint you gotthem wheels misplaced ? My father was awagon-maker, but I alius noticed that heinwirably put the smallest wheels infront r Railway Machinery in Qreat Britain. [KDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.] During a sojourn of about five weeks inthe British Isles I enjoyed very good op-portunities for seeing the various kinds oflocomotives and cars in use, for I traveleda great deal and was given all necessaryfacilities for examining anvthing deemed ditl not compare favoralily with that ofNorthern lines, but the
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