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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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SOME MORE 4-6-0 ENGINES. engines of the sort needed to propelthe car. They were cramped, or,rather, it was the style that the engi-neers portion of the car should occupythe minimum of space. Grades werefairly eas5-, and there was no particularstriving after speed. The fore half, or, better, three-quar-ters of the car, held the passengers. Facts About the Guatemala Central.Editor; As this is Good Friday and a con-venient time for me to improve theopportunity of replying to your es-teemed favor in which you requestedme, when I could find time, to con-tribute a few lines to your columns,giving your readers a little informationrelative to our road, its power andequipment, I now comply with yourrequest, as there wont be a more quietlime in the year than the present, for,as you possibly know, this is one ofthe greatest Church Fiestas of theyear. On this day no native will work,hence the shops are closed, and busi-ness on the road practically suspended,and will remain so till after Easter.
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THE "DUMMY" AND THE WAYSIDE STATION. (Photo by C. A. Kraemer.) But who cared? It was primitive andpicturesque, and all a phase of thejaunt to the observatory! Most per-sons made such a trip but once in theirlives, so they could stand it, if theothers could. Then, too, they were accommodatingon the dummy. If, for some reason, aparty was delayed they would wait un-til the last straggler had come in. Infact, people came to love the sturdyold creature and hated to see it go.much as they welcomed the electrics.Nothing was too good for the memoryof the dummy. The old cars of theline were taken to a point on Mt.Lookout and given public cremation.There is even talk of a monument be-ing put up on the site of the ashesinterment, but as yet this has notcome. Felix J. KocH. Cincinnati, Ohio. Only the regular trains run, the whis-tles are not blown, no bells rang,church bells are silent in the city, nostreet cars run, and in fact, no vehiclesof any kind are seen on the streets, asthis is truly a d

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