The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-04-10
STORY OF EHHHE No. 10Y.
Finished on Friday, She was Always Getting
Int Trouble.
ger Twin, Ie8, Was Finished on Thurs
day, and Ran True, But i07
Was -Four Times Wrecked and
Finally KEIed Her Sian.

for two locomotives of peculiar type.
They we're for narrow-gauge lille
which Of that time connected the east
and the west, and By which the tourist
travelled across the Rocky mountains.
'Phey were to be compact, short, strong
and swift, capable Of pulling ike
mule on a heavy gradeandrumning like
n scared wolf in the valley.
At that time the concern was turn
ing out locomotive complete every
"a hours. Look at the woikmen as
they begin to erect the two "Roeka
ways" as they were afterwards called,
probably because they rolled and
rocked when running at high rate Of
speed through the crooked canyons
OF Colorado. On the floor of the shop
ure two boilers, two sets Of frames.
cylinders. eccentrics-in short, all he
parts of a locomotive in duplicate
and from this heap the helpers bring
one OF each of the duplicate parts, and
the macbinists put them together un-
iii one locomotive is completed. and
rolled out to be painted. Out of what
Is left the second engine is made.
Tire is no culling or sorting, and as
the separate parts Of each are made by
one and the same pattern, there is no
good Teaaon why these two locomo-
tiyes should not ride, run and steam
equally well. When the two engines
were completed, painted and num-
bered, they were loaded onto a stand
sEd gauge fat ear and shipped to the
road for which they were built. When
they arrived and had taken stalls in
the roundhouse at Pueblo, they be-
came engines 1O7 and 100, ard attract
ed great deal OF attention from the
enginemen of the division.
"she's a scary lool1in' devil" said
Badly Hooten, as he stood in front OF
iO7; and she really did look a bit top
heavy with her long legs, short body
and "feet" so close together that they
could almost run on one rail.
take her, you fellows that are look
in for fly runs, do want her." And
with that Badly walked out of the
reundhouse and over to the ''Place Of
the Triangle" and shoek the man there
for a cigar.
When the two engines had been
raced around the yards few days and
"limbered up" 100 was coupled on to
the Pacific express one night and in
PRODUCED to the curves and corners of
the Grand canyon. The road then
was not what it is now. The next
time you go through there, il you sit
on the rear platform, you will notice
that the crumbling grade that marks
the route of the old narrow-gauge
crosses the present standard track 100
times in 50 miles. 1t was so crooked,
( Badly said, that o new runner was
sure, at some of the corners, to shut off
for his own headlight. However, 100
:, held the rail and made a good record;
Z so good, indeed, that, Notwithstanding
g was Friday, 1O7 was sent out on
ae following night. She left the
house an hour befnre leaving time, and
it was lucky she did, for she ran OFF the
track at the water tank and was got
back barely in time to take her train
out.
'NO man can call me superstitious,"
said the engineer. but they amt no
sense in temptin' Providence by takin'
new engine out On a Friday"
It'll be midnight before you reach
the canyon" said the night foreman,
"and there is no danger this sile."
There's danger in bed eff it's down
that way" was the sulIen response of
the driver as he backed down and
coupled on to the express.
1t was one of these clear moonlight
nights that make every peak and
pinnacle on the mountain ranges stand
out as clear and distinct against the
cold sky as they do in the daytime;
moon that shames the headlight, and
shows the twin threads of STEEL run
ming away off yonder and meeting and
going on together where the darkness
begins. Being new, with a clean boil
er, l07 steamed like a burning house,
and the fireman, not being affected by
the fact OF its still being Friday, found
time to hang out the open window and
watch the siiyeFy ripples that were
romping on the cold, white bosom of
the winding river along whose banks
The road Icy.
Not word had passed between the
. engineer and fireman since they start
led out, AID now they were swinging
round the curves at a good express gait,
The new engine was rocking like a
light boat on a rough sea, but other
wise shs was riding as easily as a coach.
It was 1880 when they passed Good
night, and two minutes later the fire
man was startled By that dreadful word
which almost every fireman has heard
at some time or another; 'Jumpl"
It is as natural for an engineer to
call to his fireman TO jump and save
himself-for be is OF no use on a loco
motive about TO be wrecked-as it is
for the engineer to remain at his post.
"lumpl" shouted the driver, and the
fireman glanciag ahead saw a confused
ningling of horns, hoofs aud tails be-
tween him and the track. He jumped
and came down on bunch of sage
brush amid \ shower OF steers, and saw
lOf leave the fPaok. nloH ALONG the