. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e the honor and distinction bestowed abrcad and stored away for future use,had to be guarded night and day bysoldiers, to prevent its being carried this did not suffice, for the guardiansthemselves managed to sneak it off insmall quancities, making it necessary towhite-wash the piles, so that when anywas removed it could be instantly detectedby the black patch left. The glass in the car windows was anew thing also, and in order to preventthe unsuspecting passengers from stickingtheir heads thro
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e the honor and distinction bestowed abrcad and stored away for future use,had to be guarded night and day bysoldiers, to prevent its being carried this did not suffice, for the guardiansthemselves managed to sneak it off insmall quancities, making it necessary towhite-wash the piles, so that when anywas removed it could be instantly detectedby the black patch left. The glass in the car windows was anew thing also, and in order to preventthe unsuspecting passengers from stickingtheir heads through the panes, it wasfound necessary to paste small circles ofpaper in the middle of each. These servedas a reminder of the presence of glass, andhad to be u;ed until all had become ac-customed to raise the window before look-ing out. Ten years of experience have now doneaway with all the little difficulties, and therailroad has grown to be a practical pay-ing institution. Nevertheless, it seems strange when westop and think that nowadays it is a com-mon occurrence to have a Mohammedan. move or reduce the number of cars onfast passenger trains, and viewing theiraction from the point of public safety, theyought to be given credit for urging uponthe State government of Ohio the neces-sity for compelling the short lines to co-operate with the trunk lines for interlock-ing safety switches and towers at all thegrade crossings. The Panhandle is particularly unfor-tunate in the matter of grade crossings,and the fact that they have managed toarrange for interlocking plants at Coving-ton and other points will be pleasing infor-mation to the engineers and conductors. The engineer on the locomotive of afast express train grows old before hereaches the two-score limit, simply becausehe has so many worries. He tries to makethe fast schedule time, and when he strikesa favorable stretch of track on an easygrade he cuts loose and gains a momen-tum equivalent to 70 miles an hour, butjust at the
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