Connecticut western news., 1876-08-25
Housatonic Railroad Shops,-Business at

the locomotive and car repair shops of the Housatonic Railroad Company at Falls Will
 age is not what would be called driving, but enough is being done to perhaps denom mate it as from fair to middling," as the marketmen say sometimes. The old loco motive, which in earlier days was known by it's name ''Lee," but is now designated as ''No. S." is In the machine department. but is nearly completed. This old veteran is now twenty-one years old, and Master Mechanic Morris thought as it was of age it would be no more than fair to give it 8 new suit, and treat it with other mar ks of respect and more especially is it worthy the kind attention it is receiving, as it is to continue in the service of the company in- | stead of taking It's own time. Being of age some engines might take it into their head QighD to go off on bust, but the old Lee isn't so eccentric as to throttle her fu- | ture prosperity and welfare, or assume the | risk of reOerse of fortune. Her attaeh- | n1ent to the road is so tender, she probably will never cut or her present connection with it. MT. Morris has caused her to be almost entirely made over anew. She has l bran new boiler, and every other part of her machinery that indicated any weakness by wear has been removed and duplicate of new material substituted. As we said | above, she is nearly ready for work, and undoubtedly wi Il be able to do faithful ser l vice for perhaps twenty-one years longer. Another old locomotive, and which has l probably been on the road about the same length of time as the "Lee," is the "New Milford. No. g." which'is at Bridgeport, be ing used there as switch engine. This will also soon be in the works at Falls Vil lage for treatment similar to that being given to the "Lee." Everybody on the 1 line of the Housatonic road remembers the extra long passenger car which has been on the road quite a good number of years This car was built while Mir. Chas. Hunt was president of the road, and exactly for what specific purpose Mir. Hunt had that car built at such extraordinary length( (sixty- five feet long) we do pot know. It is now in the car department of the works and undergoing repairs, seventeen feet of the length having been cut off. bringing it down to forty'eight feet car. In days of yore windows, and when it had the miniature bay windows which were originally put in it, Horace Taylor of New York. who had occasion to make frequent trips over the road to his sub home in Lee, Mass, was particularly partial to this car. He said those windows, in size little larger than gimlet hole, were so admirably arranged for the comfort of passengers Not a breath of the icy breezes of July ard Au- gust could get in through them to chill the traveller, and he asserts with all the truth he can command, that for as fir back as mind can reach, an instance is not known where passenger riding hundred miles in that car, caught cold with the thermom- eter between ninety and hundred. He gave this car pet name, ,and which, strange as it may seem, clings to it now. Horace named it the 'Chariot of H-"ades.
 | Horace loved that little car,
 | Its seats were red as snow,
 | And every time that Horace went,
 That car was sure to go (OhD
 We can't spare more than one verse at @ time of such poetry, as it is almost equal to the poem on Wheeler and Peeler in anoth- CT column, as an expression of true inward ness. Now that Horace's car is cut down to size so small it won't hold him, we ad- wise him to buy Chauncey's two-seated wagon, which is the finest in the country, and which on account of so mary other wagons he wants to sell. It is worth near ly three hundred dollars, but Chauncey is ''hard up for money" we presume, or he wouldn't sell it so cheap as he told us the other day he would. If Chauncey will put ] those miniature bay windows in that wa gon, Hor ace Taylor will buy it.