The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-12-18

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line, decided upon the grades and
curves and aided by ordinary labor
made the roadbed, laid the rails and
now runs the engine. The boy railway
KING, as might be expected, is the envy
OF MS contemporaries. He is presi-
dent, he is treasurer, he is auditor and
okays his own vouchers. All this would
be quite enough for any grown man,
VINO has spent years struggling to ac-
quire wealth in railway stocks ana like
securities, but is not enough for the
boy. The acme of bliss comes further
down the line when the president, etc,
climbs into the cab, moves the lever,
opens up the throttle and, while swim
ming in a delirium of joy, rings the
bell, blows the whistle, toots for him
self to let off the brakes, and, pulling
open the door of the fre-box by a
chain, fires up with shovels Of coal,
sets the blower a-going and the train
running up the road on schedule time
n the fence posts passing by thick
as the teeth in a fine-tooth comb.
While the Bucks Hill railroad has
ADS y oIIdIltu the ulSHlly VI lllCluS-
ION in an official railroad annual, there
Is no telling what good fortune is in
store for it, or to what extent a recog-
milton by the established railroads of
the United States might benefit it's boy
engineer-president. 1t is known to the
knowing that there are railroad presi-
dents who can boast in truth of very
1Itt1n nIrnr ,x,Isol l. -.-.. 49,
them ostensibly governing imposing
Hines of railway really only preside
over a prospectus or the ~oft-quoted
two streaks of rust and the right of
way"
The want that Tyler's Bucks Hill
railroad has at last practically filled
arose out of conditions in which his
father, William M. Tyler, a farmer on
a large scale, is interested, and that
were incidental to the character of
Connecticut soil and the topography
of that part of the state. Farming,
owing to a preponderance of rock,
boulders and gravel, is not all it might
be in Connecticut, and hence Connecti-
cut ag%riculturists would fain make
both ends meet by adding to agricul-
ture poultry or fine live stock raising,
and anything in the way of quarrying
or numbering that might prove profita-
BILE. 1t was manifest that profits as
we'll as fun awaited the success of a
miniature railroad running over Bucks
Hill. Tyler, who went tt work at it in
a very crude. small boYish way at first,
soon compelled his elders to have faith
in him as a civil and mechanical en-
gineer and road constructor. Then the
cash capital was forthcoming without
difficulty as fast as it became necessary
for Tyler to invest in material.
The boy engine builder very sensibly
the lines of a drive-wheel locomotive.
Tyler was Indifferent to appearances
but bent On practical results. He chose
the rotary mechanism best adapted to
steam launches and small motors, US
ing the gear ordinarily used for such
purposes. Tyler's lever connections
brakes, the exposure of his boiler anG
ers all wear an air of crudity. The
boys sensible ain was to save ant
make money and not to spend it ex.
travagantly.
The lad modestly states that Engine
No. 1, the Mogul of the Bucks Hill
line, is rated two-horse power, stand.
upright, is double acting, reversible
and makes 800 revolutions a minute
The boiler is also a two-horse power
upright, holding six gallons of water
1t generates steam rapidly, can ge
steam in five or six minutes, and use