. The locomotive engineer . stliar the Eric ever raised—an he did. After supper wc all set around the stove emok-\as and brng<;ing on our ingins; Ihe Erie menwere at one of the tables listening ion new manfrom Uiere, »lio was lelling about some new 30-ionUinkleye the Erie had just |uii on the road, whenIn comes Hen. Boys. says he, Im golil to leave ypu, goingback to run the big ingine on Die N. O. &F. O • ■■What road b that? snys one of the Eriefellers. * Never hwinl of lIinL road and the blggcHt in-gine on eurlliT asked Hen. Well, wlwrr docs UialErie road run to, auyhow? Aint there no newe
. The locomotive engineer . stliar the Eric ever raised—an he did. After supper wc all set around the stove emok-\as and brng<;ing on our ingins; Ihe Erie menwere at one of the tables listening ion new manfrom Uiere, »lio was lelling about some new 30-ionUinkleye the Erie had just |uii on the road, whenIn comes Hen. Boys. says he, Im golil to leave ypu, goingback to run the big ingine on Die N. O. &F. O • ■■What road b that? snys one of the Eriefellers. * Never hwinl of lIinL road and the blggcHt in-gine on eurlliT asked Hen. Well, wlwrr docs UialErie road run to, auyhow? Aint there no newe-papet3 up (here! Why, there aiut a child in the Houth as dont know all about the New Orleans »feFiddlersGreen road and the big ingine. Genllemon, I had the honor to run that inginefrom the day she was finished to last falL^when shewent into the shop, ■■•She was built to haul the big fiddle fromFiddlers Gm-cn to New Orleans and back, besidesplaying il while there. Talk about your Erie ingins. says lion.,. Stay Bolt Cutter. lonkin around from face to face as he refilled hispipe, why, they aint got one with a boiler bigenough for her pump-barrel. She was tive stories high, and two countiesand a ton-nship long. She had drives a hundred and nine feet high—not counting the lire. ■I dont jest remember the size of her bink—want never down to it but once—but il tookseven miles of Ihe Slississippi Uiver to fill it. ■■ She had forty-two acres of grates.
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