. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . treet, New York, January, 1911. No. I In a Northwestern Blizzard. Our frontispiece this month of Jan-uary, in the year of grace 1911, showsin graphic form some of the hardshipswhich fall to the lot of railroad menwhen nature wears her most forbid-ding frown. The excellent picture of atrain in a Western blizzard was verykindly given to us by Mr. Warren S. Frost, Dr. Sinclair says: A person lostin the pathless forest or cast away in afar reaching desert draws my sympathymore than any victim of
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . treet, New York, January, 1911. No. I In a Northwestern Blizzard. Our frontispiece this month of Jan-uary, in the year of grace 1911, showsin graphic form some of the hardshipswhich fall to the lot of railroad menwhen nature wears her most forbid-ding frown. The excellent picture of atrain in a Western blizzard was verykindly given to us by Mr. Warren S. Frost, Dr. Sinclair says: A person lostin the pathless forest or cast away in afar reaching desert draws my sympathymore than any victim of misfortune ex-cept, perhaps, that of people in a boaton the ocean without ■ ompass or othermeans of guidance. I have always feltthat a man sent out to run a Iocomo-tive over a strange road was in a con- very much like laying off now, for theboys often spoke about the rough timesthey had snow-bucking. However, onreflection, 1 concluded to go out, forI guessed I could do what any otherman had done I was board 1 to go out in themorning \\ ith a fr< ight that had a bad name as far as. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhoodof Locomotive Engineers. In the early days of his career Sinclair .had some of the tryingexperiences which present day locomo-tive engineers have to go through, andwhile fighting snow and wind are notcalculated to sweeten ones temper atthe time, they tend to develop some ofthe best qualities a locomotive runnercan have—hardihood and endurance. Writing of a brisk brush with Jack IX A NORTHWESTERN BLIZZARD. dition similar to the cases mentioned,and 1 hoped that it might never be mylot to go through the experience, butit was. I had been running on the roadabout two months, when on getting outof bed one morning, I found a heavycoating of snow on the ground. Snowhad been falling the greater part of thenight. There had been no snow ofany consequence where my previousrailroading had been done, and I felt snow was concerned. When I we my engine
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