. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inancial embarrassment was en-countered and successfully overcome notwithout protracted delays to the greatwork. The building of the Erie Railroad at-tracted the services of many of the bright-est and ablest business men in the were many serious blunders madeand not a few failures of alluring proj-ects; but the iron road kept drawing outmonth after month, and twelve years af-ter the first sod was cut, if such a uselessceremony was performed, a locomotivenoted for its huge smokes
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inancial embarrassment was en-countered and successfully overcome notwithout protracted delays to the greatwork. The building of the Erie Railroad at-tracted the services of many of the bright-est and ablest business men in the were many serious blunders madeand not a few failures of alluring proj-ects; but the iron road kept drawing outmonth after month, and twelve years af-ter the first sod was cut, if such a uselessceremony was performed, a locomotivenoted for its huge smokestack, passedover the imposing cascade bridge, longvanished, went past the handsome Starr-bussa viaduct, and dropped down thelong, steep grade from Summit into thestation at Susquehanna. That notableevent happened in 1847. The place was originally called Har-mony, but Major Brown, the chief engi-neer, called it Susquehanna, and the nameadhered. Susquehanna was a convenient divisionpoint, being the end of the rugged moun-tain stretches and a breathing spot foreastbound trains to start upon the moun-. LKll. Sllurs At iUSyULIL\.\.NA, iA., The building of a railroad from theocean to the lakes, through a region offorest, mountain and rugged defiles, withfew human settlements and very limitedfacilities for transporting supplies, wasa tremendous undertaking, whose mag- tain grade. The disadvantage of the lo-cation was that there was no level groundworth mentioning, but there was enoughfor the foundation of a roundhouse andmachine shop. The most optimistic ofthe companys officials could not foresee 36o RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING August, 1909. the day when the guUys and ravinesbranching from the river would be in-truded upon to hold dwellings for thepeople drawn to Susquehanna by the re-pair shops which developed piece by pieceto meet the needs of growing business. In the course of a few years the first re-pair shops at Susquehanna became utterlyunequal to the requirement
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