Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-26
WHIMS OF ENGINES.
AN ENGINEERS NARRATIVE SHOWING
 THEIR PEcuLlARlTiEs

Hallzy Spells-The Antics of some Fa-
 nous aIachines-oId HOO" Killed the
 Engineer in Fit of Rage.
 Tt sounds queer to say that loeomo- tives have their likes and dislikes 7 said a veteran engineer, Out it actual ly does seem sometimes as if they lad, and all old-ttme engineers believe it. I've seen locomotives when they acted as if they were human beings. They get the sulks and have balky streaks, ard when they're in such moods you can't make time with them, do what you may. Then, again. they'll 6e as cHipper and willing as a trottinG horse, and you actually have to hold 'em in place to keep 'em from running into stoppiHg-plaees ahead of time. There isn't an engineer of any ezperi- enee at all who cant tell you of in- stances by the dozen 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
 
 have known as good engineers as ever mounted q f0o.board 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 another engineer neither as sldifuf nor as experienced, would never run be- hind
 "Take the case Of Josh Martin and Cad Lyman. two of the early engineers on the Erie Railroad. and neither of them with superior in his craft at that day. One time a new locomotive was turned out of a Paterson shop for the Erie, and Josh Martin wanted her the worst way He ran on the De1a- ware division, from Port JeHvls to Sus- quehanna. The superintendent, though. wanted the engine for the Eastern division. between Port Jervis and Piermont, 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 provocation and acted con- trary generally. Cad tried her for a week, and then reported the locomo- tive No good, and she was condemned to run the gravel train. She worked as balky and sulky as ever. though, and at last the superintendent 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 superin- tendent yielded to Josh's appeal, and told him to take the locomotive and give her a trial Josh did so. He mounted the eab at Piermont and when he opened her up she went like bird. She made the trip to Port Jer- yis quicker than any locomotive had ever made it before and Josh Martin ran her for years on the Delaware =di- vision after that, and always on time as easy as could be- The locomotive WAS the old Fl, and she is remembered yet by 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 To- zeomative because she wouldn't work under him, he was put in charge of another new locomotive. This leco- motive was a faYorite of President Loder of the Erie, She behaved the best kind, and Cad was tickled all but to death with her When the date came round for the opening of the railroad through to Dunkirk Cad and his loco motive were chosen for the distinction of pulling the first through train from the Hudson to Lake Erie The occa- sion was to be a historic one, and Cad was proud. But what did that locomo- tive do but just get the sulks. I don't know why. Neither did Cad She did, though, and acted up so outrageous that she was an hour behind schedule time when she logged into Port Jeryis with the train only seventy miles from the start. Cad Lyman was the worst feeling man, Tspose, that ever had a locomotive kick with him, and he felt worse when he was ordered to take his balSy engine off and saw Josh Martin hook onto the train with old n loeo- motive that Cad had turned in as no good. Josh and old Il yanked the train through with bells on.
 And what do you think Cad Lyman's feelings must have been when he hook ed onto another train to run back to Piermont to find the engine that had baked and sulked so outrageously with him on what ought to have been the greatest trip on record, just turn in and let herself out so cheerfullv and lively on the way back that 1t was aII Cad could do to hold her in! Nov. how do you account for that? It is true and q matter of record. Cad was so cut up by this conduct of the locomo. tive that lie applied to have her ex- changed for some other one, although she worked like a thoroughbred ever Ne,, LN .1y