. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . on. The camera beholds the train forbut the thousandth part of one second asthe latter bowls along with swing andsway in its headlong rush. In the periodduring which the exposure is made, thetrain at full speed moves over a space ofone and one-half inches, while a rav of Early Locomotive Building. The following is an extract from theworks of Zera Colburn and was writtenabout 1850. It is interesting to us atthe present time as it recalls the con-ditions and eftorts of long ago. Theremarks made
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . on. The camera beholds the train forbut the thousandth part of one second asthe latter bowls along with swing andsway in its headlong rush. In the periodduring which the exposure is made, thetrain at full speed moves over a space ofone and one-half inches, while a rav of Early Locomotive Building. The following is an extract from theworks of Zera Colburn and was writtenabout 1850. It is interesting to us atthe present time as it recalls the con-ditions and eftorts of long ago. Theremarks made by the writer concerningwhat he calls the thrilling style mightaimost without alteration be applied tosome of the grandiloquent phrasesused by some newspaper writers at thepresent day. The progress of railroads is illustratedin the establishment of shops which fur-nish their equipment. Within five years,during which more than miles ofroad have been opened, a large number ofshops have been started in all parts of thecountry. Tlie competition between thenew builders has done a great deal for. THE EMPIRE STAIL EXPRESS HAULED BY ENGINE 999. light, one hundred and eighty-six mileslong, dashes in on the sensitive plate, asthe eye of the camera winks once. In thatexceedingly minute fraction of time, theLimited is embraced in a glance of suchstartling rapidity that the camera reallysees a train whose tardy motion permitsswift sunlight to catch the engine bell in■ mid swing, to flash and play upon polishedmetal, and to stream in through the spokesof the well-nigh motionless wheels. It is, as if, while the express traincrawled forward the width of two postagestamps, placed side by side, a goldenthread of sunlight, stretching from NewYork to Fonda, had sped over a distanceequal to more than three and a halfhours schedule run by the train, and hadtraced the picture upon the silver saltsof the plate, in the brief moment requiredfor the shutter to flash across the face ofthe lens.
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