The Baltimore County union., 1884-05-03

Asscaret they should be white as snow
And feeling still, with half glad
That the bad are as good as the good are bad,
| He strikes straight out for the Right-and he
Is the kind of q man for you and me!
A Famous Engineer.
| A Half Century of Service and a Million
and Half Miles of Travel.
Baltimore american.
William Galloway has been in con-
tinuous service as an engineer on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for fifty
one years, and has travelled over million
and a half miles. "The first work
Lever did connected with a railroad,"
sad Mr.. Galloway to Washington
Star reporter, "was in connection
with the Northern Central road. At
that time 1 was teaming for farmer in
the vicinity of Baltimore, and | broke
the ground for the first half mile of that
road with my plow when they began to
lay the grade. That was at the plant.
ing of the cornerstone, and the place
is now the eastern end of the large tun-
mel of the Baltimore and Potomac road
in Baltimore. l afterwards, on Janua-
ry 23, 1888, entered the employment of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and
have been there ever since. The
first three years 1 was delivering freight
for the company on Howard street,
and at that time the entire road from
Baltimore to Frederick was operated
by horses, and the cars used were like
the horse cars of to-day, very light and
with only four wheels. 1 then became
yardmaster at Mount Clare and remain
ed there four years. While I was there
the Northern Central road got an Eng
lish- locomotive and began to run
it in opposition to us, which of course,
our companydid not fancy. Mr.. Philip
E. Thomas was president of the compa
ny at the time, and he offered premi-
um of $4,000 to any American manu-
Lacturer who would build a locomotive
would run and do work. There
/. wa lively competition among the
iron workers Immediately, and num-
Der of engines were built by Peter
Cooper and others. 1t has been said
that Peter Cooper built
THE FIRST AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE
which run in this country, but that is
not so, the first was built by Phineas
Davis, at York, Pa. 1t weighed four
tons and was set up ready for running
and hauled on a sled from his foundry,
over the hills to the yard at Mt. Clare,
where it was placed on the track. Mr..
Cooper's engines would not work, so
we never used them, but the little Davis
machine took three loaded cars and
run them from Mt. Clare to Ellicott
mills in an hour. There were four
driving wheels on it and the pistons
worked up and down, similar to the
walking beams on a steamboat engine,
which made it look like a grasshopper
and we therefore called those engines
the grasshoppers. William Norris, of
Philadelphia, built an engine with two
driving wheels, one on each side, which
weighed eleven tons and which did not
work. l think there are few of those
in existence now. Christmas day, I84o,
l took my seat in the engine and Ihave
been running ever since. Shortly after
this Mr.. Davis, who had begun to
build his engines in Baltimore, started
one on an improved plan, and he felt
so sure of success that he told his work
men that when the engine was set up
and proved its worth, he would take
them and their wives to Washington
and have a good time of it. Well,
every thing turned out as he had antici-
pated, and he brought all the workmen,
forty or fifty in number, and their
families over here and had banquet at
Browns old hotel, that is now the Me-
tropolitan; everybody had good time,
but the end was marred by
SAD ACCIDENT.
| On the way back to Baltimore, about
fourteen miles this side of there, the en-
CINE jumped the track, and, breaking
the coupling, turned end over end.
Mr.. Davis, who was riding in the cab,
was struck in the temple by piece of
iron and instantly killed. No one else
was hurt. Mr.. Gillingham, the partner
of Mr.. Davis, then took in Ross Winans,
who was at that time draughtsman,
and they formed the firm of engine
builders which has since become known
throughout the world.
This firm built the camel-back engine
that is, those engines which have
their cabs on top, and which you see
hauling freight trains. They are good
engine for the purpose for which they
are built, and are quick although they
look so awkward. When l first began
to run we had the strap rails, which
were something like present horse-cal
rails. They were fastened down by iron
straps, counter sunk and spiked They
were so light that the ends would cur
up like dandelion stem, and accidents
were constantly occurring. We then
got the T rail and when the Washin
ton track was laid, which was some
where about 1885 or 1896 the T rails
were used exclusively, and they weigh
ed about As pounds to the yard, while
the rails used now weigh over hun
dred.
THE FIRST TRAIN
over the Washington track was run or
the 4th of July, in IS or SO, ant
George Lay was the engineer. Th'
engine was one of the Davis grass
hoppers' and was called the America
There was a big jubilee at the time
but have forgotten whether or not tn
President of the United States was OF
the train. The first President of tn
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