The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-28
NHIMS OF ENGINES

1t. We seen locomotives whom tbo,.
acted If as they were human beinos
They get the sulks and have balkv
sireaks. and when they re in such
moods You can't make time with them
do what You may. Then, again they
will be as clipper willing as q trot
ting horse. and you actually have tc
held EN- in place to keep em from
running into stopping-placcs ahead o
time. There isn't an engineer of any
experience at all who can't tell YOU O.
instances by The 4 II of engines that
| positively would not make time with
some engineers, but which would get
there every time in charge of some
other engineer. You might say that
1t was the fault of the engineer that
such engines did not make their time
but | have known as good engineers as
ever mounted a footboard who have
| been transferred from locomotives
placed in their hands to run because
the locomotives would not make their
time, but which, under the hands of an
other engineer. neither as skillful nor
as experienced, would never run be-
hind.
1nl- l,,,f = I
Cad Lyman, two Of the early engineers
on the Erie Il. r., and neither of them
with superior in his craft at that day.
One time new locomotive was turn
Ell out of a Patterson shop for the
Erie, and Josh Martin wanted her the
worst way. He ran on the Delaware
division, from Port Jcrvis to Susque-
hanna. The upcrintendent, though,
wanted the engine for the Eastern d-
vision, between Port Jcrvis and Pier
mont, and so he put her in charge of
Cad Lyman. Cad ran her, or rather
he tried to run her, but she had made
up her mind about something, and she
wouldn't make any kind of time for
Cad. She would stall without provo
cation and acted contrary generally
Cad tried her for Il week, and then re-
ported the locomotive NO good and
she was condemned to run the gravel
train. She worked as balky and sulky
as ever, though, and at last the super
intentlent ordered her to the scrap
heap.
Josh Martin heard of the fate the
locomotive had been sentenced to, and
he came down the road a-hying. He
begged to have the engine. for he liked
her, and said he was sure she would do
all right, with him. The superinten-
dent yielded to Josh's appeal, and told
him to take the locomotive and give her
trial. Josh did so, mounted the cab
at Picrmont, and when he opened her
up she went like a bird. She made
the trip to Port Jcrvis quicker than
any locomotive had made it before, and
Josh Martin ran her for years ON the
Delaware division after that, and al
ways on time as easy as could be.
The locomotive was the eli II. and
she is remembered yet l:y all the old
engineers, and is we'll known to the
younger ones by the tradition of the
road
when Cad Lyman gave up that
locomotive because she wouldn't work
under him, he was put in charge of
another new locomotive This loco
motive was favorte of President Lo-
dor Of the Erie. She behaved the best
kind, and Cad was tichlcd all but
to death with her When the date
came round for the opening of the
railroad through to Dunkirk Cad and
his locomotive were chosen for the dis
tinction Of pulling the first through
train from the Hudson to Lake Eric.
The occasion was to be an historic one,
and Cad was proud. But what did
that locomotive do but just get tie
>ulks. don't know why. Neither
did Cad. She did, though, and acted
50 outrageous that she was an hour-5C-
hind shedulc time when she logged in
to Port Jervis with the train only Sc
vcnty miles from the start. Cad Lv-
man was the worst feeling man, I'sposc,
that ever had Il locomotive kick with
him, and he felt worse when he was
ordered to take his balEy engine off
and saw Josh Martin hook on to the
train with old II locomotive that Cad
had turned in as no good Josh and
old II yanked the train through with
bells on.
And what lo YOU think Cad Ly-
mans feelings must have been when
he hooked onto another train to run
back to Piermont to find the engine
that had balked and sulked so out
rageously with him on what ought to
have been the greatest trip on record,
Just turn in and let herself out so
chccrfully and lively on the way back
that it was all Cad could do to hold
her in. Now, how do you account for
that? 1t is true. and Il matter of re-
cord. Cad was so cut up by this con-
duct Of the locomotive that he applied
to have her exchanged for some other