. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sp!it (his sleeve ill balvc3) I- o r^ 2i ^ (jJp ^ c^ ^ o 3 I T •i? ^. PISTON F.\STENING DEVICE. Old-Time Railroad Reminiscences. BY S. J. KIDDER, Editor: Tlie man who got into the air brakebusiness in the early days of that mostimportant adjunct to safety in train han-dling had many experiences, and of allkinds and character, that do not so fre-quently fall to the present participant inthat line of work. In those old days airbrakes on engines and cars were a nov-elty, consequently very imperf
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sp!it (his sleeve ill balvc3) I- o r^ 2i ^ (jJp ^ c^ ^ o 3 I T •i? ^. PISTON F.\STENING DEVICE. Old-Time Railroad Reminiscences. BY S. J. KIDDER, Editor: Tlie man who got into the air brakebusiness in the early days of that mostimportant adjunct to safety in train han-dling had many experiences, and of allkinds and character, that do not so fre-quently fall to the present participant inthat line of work. In those old days airbrakes on engines and cars were a nov-elty, consequently very imperfectly un-derstood, and very few men were therewho had even a fairly respectable smat-tering of the subject, though with thenot unusual perversity of human nature. were he permitted to follow Methuselahin point of years. In the event of so asserting, how-ever, others are only liable to questioncither his common sense or the quan-tity of gray matter deposited in his up-per storj, for the man whom DameNature has provided with a fairly mod-erate supply of that very desirable com-modity realizes his own inability, as wellas that of humanity in general, to everattain perf
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