Identifier: railroadengineer64newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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aboutthe engine getting through some of the sharp curves along thewall, and also the strength of the track ; in fact, they offeredto make any alteration I might want. I had examined thetrack carefully, and saw nothing that the engine was not ableto take easily. Before starting they got some screw jacks,blocks, and other things, and were piling them up on the en- GODFREY of Bouillon, and thou,Richard, lion-hearted King,Candidly inform us, now.Did you ever ?No you neverCould have fancied such a thing.Never such vociferationsEntered your imaginationsAs the ensuing— Ease her, stop her ! Any gentleman for Joppa ? Mascus, Mascus ? Ticket, please, sir. Tyre or Sidon ? Stop her, ease her ! Jerusalem, lem ! Mem !— Shur ! Shur ! Do you go on to Egypt, sir ? Captain, is this the land of Pharaoh ? Now look alive there ! Whos for Cairo ? Back her ! Stand clear, I say, old file ! What gent or ladys for the Nile, Or Pyramids ? Thebes ! Thebes ! sir ! Steady ! Now, Wheres that party for Engedi ?
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MOGUL LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE JAFFA & JERUSALEM RAILROAD.BUILT BY THE BALDW N LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, PHILADELPHIA. gine. I asked the superintendent what they were for, and hesaid to put her on the track if she got off. All right, Isaid, but we wont need them. We went over the shortpiece of road in good style and without a stop. She went fastenough also to keep the flags to the breeze, so that all wouldsee what sort of flags they were. They were all very muchpleased that no change had to be made, and that the enginecurved so nicely. The machinery has all come right so far andwithout trouble. We expect to start on the second one to-morrow. All the circumstances connected with the event of start-ing a locomotive in the land in which the principal eventsnarrated in the Bible transpired recalls Hoods poem on THE IMPUDENCE OF STEAM. Over the billows and over the brine,Over the water to Palestine IAm I awake, or do I dream ?Over the Ocean to Syria by steam !My say is sooth, by this right hand ; A

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