Identifier: railwaylocomotiv20newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nybody mean to saythat decent people—passengers who woulduse their own carriages and are accus-tomed to their own comforts—would con-sent to be hurled along through the airupon a railroad, from which, if a lazyschool boy left a marble or a wicked onea stone they would be pitched off theirtrack into the valley beneath; or is it tobe imagined that women who may likethe fun of being whirled away on a partyof pleasure for an hour to see a sightwould endure the fatigue and misery anddanger, not only to themselves, but theirchildren and families, of being draggedthrough the air at the rate of twentymiles an hour, all their lives being at themercy of a tin pipe, or a copper boiler,or the accidental dropping of a pebble onthe line of the way. We, however, gofarther, and denounce the mania as de-structive of the country in a thousandparticulars—the whole face of the king-dom is to be tattooed with these odiousdeformities; huge mounds are to inter-sect our beautiful valleys; the noise and
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3IT 01- R.\CK AND PINION ROAD ON THE VERY EDGE OF THE .\BYSS ALONGTHE SHEER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. to this favorite absurdity, and the lastsplendid exhibition took place only onThursday, on the new tom-foolery toGreenwich, when in the outset, by someaccident, one of the carriages, in whicha party of noodles ventured themselves,was thrown off the rail, but, although itran avast many yards, no serious acci-dent occurred. How lucky! Nobodykilled the first dav of the trial. Never jump at a conclusion—it mightknock you down! in a sheet of fire. The electric wireswere kept buzzing and when the fierychariot, otherwise the burning train,reached 125th street, the Fire Depart-ment was on hand. The passengershurriedly left the cars and semed toenjoy the show. The firemen quenchedthe flames in nine minutes. The nameof the quick-witted woman is unknown.She did not see the firemen at work, forthe train had passed far beyond where shewas. but the result of her efforts washighly satisfactory to all

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