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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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No. o of the same railroad. No. 3 is a photo may recall reminiscences and linkhearts together wherever F. R. Co. boysare scattered. The small photos and sketches I amsending may be produced or otherwiseat your pleasure. They are the work ofamateurs, all representing Engine No. 3.The one, with crew, well clad in overcoat,the indispensable winter adjunct for en-gines of this class, is here shown. En-gineer Battersby is here shown with mate.who has had this engine some years. Onthe large photo it might be worthy of note,Engineer L. Longcake is in charge. Helos~t both feet in 1874, but still manages,by artificial feet, to occasionally mountthe foot-plate. He is here seen nearerecting shop, at some period when theengine has undergone repairs. Shouldyou wish to produce this in condensedform in Locomotive Engineering, youare at liberty to do so. Your paper, Ithink, gains yearly in popularity, and whenan old. familiar-looking piece of scrap (Continued on page 434.). LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 188
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o3 o .-oo o IB O=so 434 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. like the old 3 turns up occasionally.the boys think all the bettei ol you,whatever road they were formerly on. Imay. as time elapses, get the amateurs totake something of more modern construition on the Furncss line, but for the presmt I must conclude my remarks. j.iUN Nelson. Gleichen, Alberta, X. II. /. (We regret to find that only one of the(our photos sent by the correspondent isfit for reproduction.—Ed.) g § § A Great Logging Railroad. Editors: The cutting of all timber in the im-mediate neighborhood of rivers andstreams available for driving, and the de-mand for facilities for getting the interiorlogs to market, was the necessity whichcalled lumbering railroads into existence.They have almost revolutionized the lum-ber industry. Before their advent only asmany trees were felled as could be takencare of while the snow lasted: now asmany are cut as can be hauled all the yeararound. Then the logs went to thethoroughfare over long

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