Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-10
THE WHtMS OF ENGINES.
LOCOMOTIVES THAT GET THE SULkS
AND HAVE BALKY STREAKS.

An Account of the Stubhornest Engine
That was Ever Put "A Road Likes
and Di~Iike> Between Locomotives and
Engineers Some Gases.
locomotives arr funny things, sal an
Erie engineer, and I've seen them some
times when believed they Were actually
human They get the sulk> and have
halky Streaks. and when they're in such
moods vnu cant make time with them any
more than You can fly. Then, again,
they Il be as chipper and willing ~ thor
oughbred horse, and You actually have TO
hold EN- in To keep from running into sta
tions ahead of time
Il suppose the SubbOTneSt locomotive
that Wa ever put on road was one of the
Twin Sisters, II couple of splendid ma
chimes built by the New York Central a
few years ago They were made exactly
alike i'll every particular. from the same
patterns. hy the same wurkmen, and with
the SANE materials There wasn't man
on the road that could tell which WAS
which until their numbers were painted
on them They were beauties. and the en-
gineerS VIII" were assigned t" duty on
liltiil were CIV W All Nllf IVY " iIN -
the engines were put on trial one Of the
locomotives developed amazing power and
speed She could take a freight train up
a grade with scarcely an effort, and with a
passenger train made fifty miles AN hour
with ease
SPITFFUI PTFFs OF BLACK SMOKE
The other wouldn't 20 at all Even
when pulled wide open she would simply
Sr,1nla "a
few turns of Ier driving wheels and then
would stop The way she exhausted
steam Shove she was a vixen. She was
taken apart and not a single thing could
be found wrong with her mechanism.
Different parts of the locomotive that was
50 great a suCcess were exchanged for the
same parts in the stubborn one. The will
ing locomotive ran aS well as ever. but the
stubborn one refused To move a peg. They
tried half a dozen different engineers on
her-for you must know that sometimes
locomotive is particular about the man
that handles her throttle, and will do
work for one that she refuses To do for an
other; but she treated them all with equal
disdain, They put her in the round
house and kept her there for six months,
thinking that she might get over her
halky fit. and run all right on another
trial
~One day they fired her up and tried her
She started off like a beauty, and ran two
miles in little over two minutes. Then
she stopped. and couldn't he induced to
make a move in either direction. She was
towed back to the shops and taken tu
pecos The same machinery WAS used in
building another locomotive. and that one
was as big a success aS the mate of the
stubborn engine and when last heard of
her she was still one of the best engines On
the road
1T sounds queer tO say that locomotives
have their likes and dislikes, but il actu
ally does seem that they have. and there
are few engineers who don't believe il
There isn't railroad man who cant tell
You instances by the dozen of engines that
positively would not make time with some
engineers: but would get there every time
under the hands of others You might say
II was the fault Of the engineers if the en-
gines did not make their time, but | have
known the very best engineers that ever
mounted the fOOtbOard who have been
obliged tO he transferred from locomotives
placed in their charge because the lucOmo-
tives would not make their time but
which. under the hand of other engineers
neither as skillful nor 50 experienced,
would never run behind.
ACAsE OF INITIAL ATTACHMENT
Take the case Of Josh Martin and Cad
Lyman. two OF the Old-time Erie engineers,
and either of them without a superior in
their day. Josh WAS running a locomotive
that he was greatly attached to. and the
sequel proved that the attachment was
mutual For some reason or other the
superintendent of the road wanted Joshs
locomotive for use on II portion of the road
that Lyman ran on, 50 he ordered Lyman
and Martin TO exchange engines. The Old
fellows who remember il say that when
Jush's engine was run away from Port
Jarvis, Josh cried like baby, and that
the engine herself was all broke up at tn"
parting. for she was an hour longer than
she should have been in getting 10 her
new field of labor. Cad Lyman took
charge Of her, but she had made up her
mind that She would not work under him.
and she didn't She got stalled with the
lightest trains, and never made her run on
time After a week ; trial Lyman reported
condemned 10 run the gravel train. She
the superintendent ordered her taken to
Paterson and broken up.
Josh Martin heard of this and came
down the road a-tlyin' He begged to have
his old gal back again, and finally the
superintendent said he might try her
Josh mounted his foOtbOard once more.
and when he pulled the throttle away she
went like bird. She made the run back
TO Port Jervis quicker than any locomo-
tive had ever done it up to that day, and
Josh Martin ran her for wears over the
Delaware division after that. and ALWAYS
made his run on time as easy as could be
except in case of accident. No. sir; the
fact of the matter was, Josh and that en-
gine Just loved one another and simply
would not be parted; and there are plenty
of cases just like it to-day. New York
Times.
VI. Pasteur's Intellectual Activity.
"Did you find VI. PaSteur an interesting
model | asked NJ BonnaI
Not very interesting he replied H,
talks very little. He seems very gentle
and simple ! imagine he adores his fam
lily and his grandchildren. think he is Z
Christian. and even that he practices the
ohServanCes of the church. But he ap
pHrcnily thinks Of little except virus and
rahhIe> his intellectual activity. | should
say. j. limited to his chemical studies,
whatever they may be for the moment
whether incubation or the manufaCtu-,
Of vinegar. He is not a talker Indeed
la. ,,atltars tho laaSt Of nj