Identifier: railwaylocomotiv21newy (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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-Stillman Co 4th Cover Westinghouse Air Brake Co 2 Whittlesey, Geo. P 176 Wolfe Brush Co xo Wood, R. D., & Co 7 Wood, Guilford S 10 K^d locomotive ElljinCCrillJ Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1908 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXI. 114 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1908 No. S The Sunset Route. The Sunset Express when running over southern borders of Texas, New Mexico, It is, of course, not possible that the Southern Pacific proper is between Arizona and the fruit land> and Pacific Charles Dickens could have made any in- Rio Grande, Tex., and San Francisco, coast of California. tentional reference to the railroads of Cal. The distance between these two The word Arizona is generally sup- the far West when he put into the mouth points is 1285 miles, or a little more than posed to be compounded of the two words, of Colonel Diver, speaking for the typical half the railway mileage between New arid and znc\ and refers to the dry and
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OX THE LINE American, the words, His answer to thetyrant and the despot is that his home isin the setting sun. The tyrants anddespots of modern city life, the rush andbustle of business may perhaps be answer-ed almost in the words quoted, for one ofthe most beautiful parts of the world istraversed by the Southern Pacific, therailway that has adopted the poetical ap-pellation, the Sunset Route. OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. Orleans and San Francisco. The runmade by No. 9, the west bound train, oc-cupies 51 hrs. and 42 mts., or an averageof nearly 25 miles an hour, and the trainis composed of Pullman drawing-room,sleepers, library, buffet and observationcar; diner, Pullman tourist, chair carsand coaches. The road is single trackand with its allied line, the Galveston,Harrisburg & San Antonio, skirts the SAX JOSE, CAL. parched strip of land between the moun-tains. Outside this strip and on the coastside of the range there is one of the mostfertile stretches of country in the world

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