. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 4-6-2 PASSENGER ENGINE FOR THE NOIMIIKKN PACIFIC. \\. Moir, Mechanical Superintendent. Baldwin Locomotive Works, Rtiildcrs. the wicked cease from troubling and theweary are at rest. If he should survivea long time, it is certain that the belter hesuits the job, the longer he will be keptthere. If he wants promotion he mustfight for it with all the cunning of a wardpolitician. If he tarries long, a day comeswhen a young assistant to the vice-presi-dent comes along. He may be a con-sumptive dud
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 4-6-2 PASSENGER ENGINE FOR THE NOIMIIKKN PACIFIC. \\. Moir, Mechanical Superintendent. Baldwin Locomotive Works, Rtiildcrs. the wicked cease from troubling and theweary are at rest. If he should survivea long time, it is certain that the belter hesuits the job, the longer he will be keptthere. If he wants promotion he mustfight for it with all the cunning of a wardpolitician. If he tarries long, a day comeswhen a young assistant to the vice-presi-dent comes along. He may be a con-sumptive dude with a chest as flat as .1 at Oswego, N. Y., and retires on a well-earned pension. He is one among a thou-sand. A great, stalwart man with a soulof fire and a body of iron. Gifted bynature with colossal strength, he has Idthe simple life. Like the Hebrew chil-dren of old he has come unscathedthrough the fiery furnace. Like Danielhe has been in the den of lions and ihefine spirit of the man shining through his. WESTERN RAILRO.\D SCENERY coffin lid and bleary eyes with spectaclesthat resemble storm windows, but hoquickly sees the gray hairs showing hereand there in the devoted head of theroundhouse foreman. His days arenumbered. An excuse is found for hisremoval, or he may have his choice offacing nuts in the bolt room in the backshop, or he may have an appointmentoflfered to him as night watchman of theboiler room and vicinitv with a tread- radiant eyes softened the hearts of thesavages. He is one of the very few rail-road men out of whose life work amongthe grosser elements of the earth, the rareblossoms of poetry have sprung, sanctify-ing, adumbrating and ennobling the com-mon dish of evedy-day experience. Allthings move onward and upward, and letus hope that there are better things instore for the future of the roundhouseforeman. latter are equipped with Schmidt super-heaters. The designs for both classesare based on drawings and specificationsfurnished by the railway compa
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