Identifier: railwaylocomotiv15newy (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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again, dropped down and derailed fivecars.—Pittsburg Post. In an address delivered at a banquetin Philadelphia celebrating the 70th an-niversary of the Baldwin LocomotiveWorks, Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, presidentof the Illinois Central, made the state-ment that the West Feliciana Railroad,now a part of the Illinois Central Rail-road, was the first interstate railway everchartered or built. It was called theFeliciana and Bayou Sara Railroad, andextended from Mississippi into Louisiana,a distance of 27 miles. There must havebeen some enterprising citizens in thatpart of Mississippi in those days whenthey engaged in such an expensive enter-prise to improve their methods of trans-portation. Life on the Smooth Line is thename of a pamphlet published by theJoseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City,N. J. It is a very amusing little storyand will be sent free to any person in-terested in keeping bearings runningcool. May, 1902. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 201 Thei448 Opinion ol Pooling. ¥
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BY J. mcURDV. Sid McClurc was not only the f.re.nanon engine .44, but was also in love w.ththat engine and they understood eachSer well enough to carry on a conversa-tion when they had .nothmg belter to do^One day, while Sid was curled up on the?ea box waiting for No. :. to come mf om the West, he asked the .44 what shehought about pooling, and aUo venturedhe assertion, Uont you find it a greaterraXcW than anything the company has ever done? Engine .44. ^-^^ ^;= ^the service for some time, and bad gonethrough about all of the trials and tr.bu-latTons that falls to the lot of an eng.ne.reolicd as follows: No, we dont look at it from the same standpoint that the enginemen <1°- ^- gLs are more afraid of the ab-e °f the engine crews than they are of the neglect au ed by the pool system. A poor fir - can explain it. so you will P-^ably un-derstand it better by repeating an .nter-eS conversation I overheard one daywine waiting at Dunbar. You repiembThe day that the pusher got into No.

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