Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-06-29
eC[ENTIFIC MARVELS.
eTGHTS IN TIE HUGE TRANS
PORTATlON BUILDING.
eewiIdering in It's Variety-Exhibits Rep
resenting Marine and Railway Lsoomo-
tion In All Stages of Evolution ship
uedels from England.
Railway Exhibit.

The display inside the Transports
ton Building at the Columbian Expo
sition is bewildering in its range and
variety. The whole history of trans
nortation. from birch-bark canoes to
steamships, and from pack horses to
nalace cars, is unfolded in a manner
never to be forgotten. Looking down
from the galleries upon the acres and
acres of exhibits, one sees monster
black steam hammer for forging armOr
,,1ates which towers above the second
l+orv. a row of famous locomotives fac
mo ont from the annex like herd of
81 elephants, full section OF colossal
81 ocean steamship, and scattered about
81 here and there, thousands OF objects
= that tell the story of how man has
y gradually annihilated space.
The invention and development of
the locomotive and railway system is
! the nineteenth century wonder. Less
Il than sixty-eight years since the hrst
q passenger railway ran its first crude
\ train. Now the great civilizer has
d penetrated every country. About ten
acres of ground floor space are devoted
9 exclusively to exhibits pertaining to
y railway construction, equipment, ope-
ration. management and development
Il Siytv-fOur modern locomotives Of all
y tvpes and sizes from the two one-hun-
dred ton Decapod engines which stand
on the pedestals between the Admins.
tration Building and the railway sta-
j tion to the five ton logging locomotives
4 for use in the forests of Michigan. All
the leading makers exhibit one or
more modern locomotives, some being
raised from the rails and showing the
machinery in operation by compressed
air. Besides these there are a score or
more of magnifcently equipped coach
es and thirty-fve freight cars, en-
y bracing every variety, by the leading
d builders in the country. Among the
a other attractions are two Leslie
N rotary snow plows, a centrlfu-
M cal snow excavator and a Russell
ID snow pillow, fourteen steam shovels
and locomotive travelling crane,
light and heat tender of the Chicago,
Il Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railroad. and
q the dynamOmeter Of the Chicago, Bur
y lington and Quincy road. All this rep
Y resents steam transportation as 1t is
4 now, but the most fascinating part OF the
railway shOW--mOre so even than the
mighty engines and the solid mahogany
4 train from Canada-is the display OF
u relics, models, old engines and ears and
y specimens Of the quaint roadways OF
q earlier days. 1t is the first time that
Il such work has been undertaken, and
4 Mr.. T. Hackworth. of the railway de-
partment, has gathered complete
a historical collection. For instance, the
y Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has for
more than d year past been making ex-
N tensive preparations for It's historical
8 exhibit which includes about thirty
4 full size wooden models of the earliest
Il locomotives built in this country and
1 in England, with samples of original
tracks. Three of the Grasshopper type
of engine. the old locomotives sam
son" and Albion" built in England
and shipped to Nova Scotia in 1888. and
other specimens of the very early To-
comotives are among the attractions.
The models are all to be shown with
machinery in operation. That is one
of the delightful things about the sec
ton.
Now comes the Chicago and North
western Railway with the Pioneer"
built in 1885 by the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works. the fourth engine built by
that firm. The Pioneer came to Chi
cagO in 1S4S and was the first locomo-
tive to penetrate SO far West. This
! engine ran on the old Galena Road
Y now a portion of the Chicago and
II Northwestern system and 1t actually
steamed into the Exposition grounds q