The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-07

n.,',no story, says the st Louis Globe
pomoorat' ~ a., ponos,,,.,,.
ms nom York TO Peach Bottom
.h'+ the people living in the country
.'r'uob which it passes call the Accom-
adorion. 1t was, when originally built,
,arro,y gauge road, and as business hnd
ho developed tbs train service WAS much
the order of the go as you please There
VI nae two trains, and each made one round
Wv, a dav. the road being about GO miles
,ang The officers gave orders TO the train
IN IN make friends with the people, so
80 "a make them go out OF their way to
otrontze the new road. The trainmen
ptoot advantage of this order at every OPP
portunity. - .o,o.,.
cations on the road, and when the trains
,aSt tbe terminal stations the conductor
.as master of the situation until he got
wal, AGAIN or arrived at the other ter
adnns They say that the superintendent
nf the road had tho hardihood to ride over
tho road one day and that he hired horse
omd buggy and rode back to York, as he
was In hurry.
"Tbe train that puts up at Peach Bot
.om for the night leaves York about
oSclock In the afternoon, and it Is optional
,,ith the trainmen as to the time they ar
. ,;re home. One of the trainmen on the
road told somo time ago that on one of the
trims down they picked up drunken
farmer who had stretched himself out on
the track for quiet sleep. The conductor
cbanced to know him and held the train
while the brakeman and baggage master
carried him to his home, nearly mile
awav. In about an hour the two men re-
turned with an invitation from the farm
eris wife for the crew and passengers to
come over to supper
"There were only three passengers, and
they quickly accepted the invitation. OF
course the crew went, and after the repast
an old negro with cracked fiddle was
brought in and dance was inaugurated.
The conductor then wanted to proceed,
hut the engineer had become sweet on the
farmers daughter and persuaded him to
dance few more rounds.
1.-The train was due at Peach Bottom at
An. m, but that night it aid not reach its
destination until midnight. Only one
more passenger was picked up on the lower
end of the road, and he only grumbled a
little, so no harm came from the incident,
the engineer accounting for the delay to
the SUPERINTENDENT WIN q Soou auoiy opouo
the engine giving out.
"That road is now owned by Baltimore
people and is broad gagged, and the train
service is almost first class l might add
that it was a common thing for the train
men in the earlier days of the road to take
large tin pals along and stop the train as
n good locality and Gil them with black
berries before proceeding, but that only
occasioned an hours delay and was little
thoupht Of No wonder they called 1t
Accommodation road
when the Erie road was first built
the railroad man continued, (which now
runs from Harrisburg TO Canandaigua,
n. Y, it was nicknamed the Dayy Crock
ett,' and for many years thereafter the
name chung 1t was brought about in
this way:
zone dark night, when the conductor
was taking three passenger cars through
TO bury he noticed the headlight OF O
locomotive in his rear He instantly in
formed the engineer of the fact, and both
began specializing what it meant. The
train was running ut a high rate OF speed
but the headlight in the rear was gaining
steadily on them. AS there were no lights
in the rear of the headlight, they concluded
it must be an empty engine That roac
twists in and out among the mountains
and skirts the banks of the Susquehann'
river in such way as to permit any ont
looking back TO observe what Is going Oh
in the rear for a considerable distance.
The conductor ordered the engineer u
put on more steam, and the latter pulle'
the throttle wide open Then followed I
wild weird chase through the night. Pur
suer and pursued tore along at the highes
.l..,.l. ha
that the engineer of the pursuing engln
was either drunk or crazy.
AT last a brilliant idea struck the en-
gineer. He recalled the fact that loco
motive can make little progress on grens
rails The contents of two large cans O
lard oil were poured on the track from IN
rear of the last passenger coach The lde
proved great one. Soon the headlight O
the pursuing engine grew dim In the dl'
lance. When IL was safe to do so, the tral
stopped and backed up to solve the iny'
terry. very funny sight was revealed
lone of the finest engines on the roao
called the Davy Crockett-they gave Ut
locomotives names in those days lnslet'
of numbers-had broken away from III
hostler up at Williamsport and starte
down the track on voyage OF DESTRUCTION
The oil poured on the track had bafiied a
the destructive abilities that locomoti'
possessed There stood the Davy Crocke
putting and snorting and paving IKE
wild Texas steer. the driving wheels ouz
ing around on the CREASED track IKE
ilywheel in a. machine shop. but hard
moving an inch.
mot sign of an engineer was foun,
and the fireman of the pursued tral
mounted the engine and shut her Oh
They towed her into Sunbury' ana the
found n dispatch ordering them OH 70
side track out of the way of the runawa
but tho oil had saved them.
"a large excursion train was returnii
from Niagara Falls that night, ana the
cape from destruction was really proug
about 10y the oiled rails. Inc Ia
Crockett made many trips after that,
the road went under the nickname LOT
long time, owing to the peculiar way
lives of many people had been saved
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