. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. is old engine handlediill their best passenger trains, was on allihe heaviest freight runs, and was likedly all the boys. It was well along in thesOs before another engine was built thatcould compete with her, and it took anuich heavier engine to down her. Heavier engines coming in, in tlie lateOs she was disposed of, but whether shei- still on the rails I do not know. Her two mates, the Philander Coburn;.nd the Wm. G. Davis are still in har-ness, although they are now owned bylit her roads. When the old Jose was in her primeKtarly all the Maine Central lo
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. is old engine handlediill their best passenger trains, was on allihe heaviest freight runs, and was likedly all the boys. It was well along in thesOs before another engine was built thatcould compete with her, and it took anuich heavier engine to down her. Heavier engines coming in, in tlie lateOs she was disposed of, but whether shei- still on the rails I do not know. Her two mates, the Philander Coburn;.nd the Wm. G. Davis are still in har-ness, although they are now owned bylit her roads. When the old Jose was in her primeKtarly all the Maine Central locomotivesliurned wood. Kx every station youwould see enormous woodsheds, open onllic side, piled full of wood. To saw thiserormous quantity of wood, that the oldwood burners used to eat, they had regu-lar sawing machines, so arranged could shift the gear and propel them-selves from station to station. The crewslived in a house car, the foreman acted asconductor, and usually the wife of onenf the crew went with them as She could get two cars more over thehill than the A. D. Lockwood, the oldQueen of the Road, and for speed noth-ing in the State of Maine could touch to the Sewall there hadnever been but one engine in Back Routservice that could compete with the GrandTrunkers for speed. This was the oldUnion, a Baldwin machine. The G. a lot of Baldwins, all very fast, andthev used to race over that stretch of How queer they would look traveling overthe rails of a inodern road, hauling thehouse car and a flat car which carriedtheir wood and water. Their speed wasabout 4 miles per hour. The engineweighed about 6 tons. Only one pair ofwheels were used for drivers, and thiymust have had a hard pull over some ofthe hills. Chas. S. , Mc. 236 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. July, 1912. Fancy Penmanship on Train Orders. luiitor: At rare intervals the press of the coun-try records a fatal calamity resulting froma misunderstanding
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