Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal, Volume 491915 |
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Page 16
... fire- man's side of the cab , and rode with old Mike a hundred and fifty miles that night . And it was a ride never to be for- gotten . It was a wild , stormy night . The wind was blowing and howling out of the Northwest and the snow ...
... fire- man's side of the cab , and rode with old Mike a hundred and fifty miles that night . And it was a ride never to be for- gotten . It was a wild , stormy night . The wind was blowing and howling out of the Northwest and the snow ...
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... fire She can run and never tire . All the feed she gets is coal , Yet this mighty nimble foal , Can go out and win a race At what seems an easy pace . She will do a lot of work And will never try to shirk , And she'll do it all the day ...
... fire She can run and never tire . All the feed she gets is coal , Yet this mighty nimble foal , Can go out and win a race At what seems an easy pace . She will do a lot of work And will never try to shirk , And she'll do it all the day ...
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... fire boys ; if you don't want to run for what we are paying them you can go . We will pro- mote some of the boys , they will run for even less than we pay now . Some of them will run for the same wages they are firing for , which is ...
... fire boys ; if you don't want to run for what we are paying them you can go . We will pro- mote some of the boys , they will run for even less than we pay now . Some of them will run for the same wages they are firing for , which is ...
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... fire that had taught me how to fire hard coal . Spitzer got the same raise . So much for the " Sussex . " I might tell you how I came to get a job braking for George Duffield on the work train ( leaving out names ) . The New Jersey was ...
... fire that had taught me how to fire hard coal . Spitzer got the same raise . So much for the " Sussex . " I might tell you how I came to get a job braking for George Duffield on the work train ( leaving out names ) . The New Jersey was ...
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... fire . While towing her to a point where boiler could be filled water showed up in the glass again . I asked the engineer how it happened and he said he reversed the engine while being towed , thus pumping air into the boiler , and when ...
... fire . While towing her to a point where boiler could be filled water showed up in the glass again . I asked the engineer how it happened and he said he reversed the engine while being towed , thus pumping air into the boiler , and when ...
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Page 421 - Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you " ? This was the doctrine of Lao-tsze.
Page 280 - We may live without poetry, music, and art ; We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; We may live without friends ; we may live without books ; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books, — what is knowledge but grieving ? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? He may live without love, — what is passion but pining ? But where is the man that can live without dining?
Page 312 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto...
Page 529 - Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officer or agent in charge of such employee at the time said employee left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the crews of wrecking or relief trains.
Page 373 - That whenever, as provided in said Act, any train is operated with power or train brakes, not less than fifty per centum of the cars in such train shall have their brakes used and operated by the engineer of the locomotive drawing such train ; and all power-braked cars in such train which are associated together with said fifty per centum shall have their brakes so used and operated...
Page 382 - ... complete" must not be given to an inferior train until the signatures of the conductor and engineman of the superior train have been sent to the . 218. When a train is named in a train order by its schedule number alone, all sections of that schedule are included, and each must have copies delivered to it. 219. Unless otherwise directed, an operator must not repeat or give the "X...
Page 67 - Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Page 90 - SECTION. — One of two or more trains running on the same schedule displaying signals or for which signals are displayed. EXTRA TRAIN. — A train not represented on the Time-table.
Page 311 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in Interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved March 2d, 1893, and amended April 1st, 1896.
Page 312 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees thereon...