Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-01-05
NHIMS OF ENGINES.
AN ENGINEERS NARRATIVE SHOWING
 THEIR PEGuLlARlTles-


 THEIR PECuLlARiTlEs.
 They Very Often Fall Into Queer suIlsy and BalEy spells-The Antics of Some Fa- nous Machines-0Id .1OOo Knled tho Engineer in Tit of Rage.
 It sounds queer to say that locomo- tlYes have their likes and dislikes, sad a veteran engineer, but it actual4 ly does seem sometimes as if they had, and all old-time engineers believe It. I've seen locomotives when they acted as if they were human beings. 1hey get the sulks and have balky streaks, and when they're in such moods you can't make time with them, do what you may Then, again, they'll De as chipper and willing as a trotting horse, and you actually have to hold eln ln place to keep 'em from running into stopping-plaees ahead of time. mere isn't an engineer of any experi- ence at all who can't tell you of tn- 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 engines did not make their time, but l 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 another engineer, neither as skilful 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 q new locomotive was turned out of a Paterson shop for the Erie, and Josh Martin wanted her the worst way. He ran on the Dela- ware division, from Port Jervis 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 proyocation and acted con- trary generally Cad tried her for week, and then reported the loeomo- tive No good. and she was condemned to run the gravel train She worked as balky and su1l1y 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-fying. 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 trial. Josh did so. He mounted the cab at Ptermont, and when he opened her up she went like a bird. She made the trip to Port Jer- wis quicker than any locomotive had ever made 1t 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 T, and she is remembered yet by all the old engineers, and is well known to the younger ones by the tradition of the road.
 When Cad Lyman gave up that lo- comotive because she wouldn't work under him, he was put In charge of another new locomotive. This loco- motive was favorite~ of President Loder of the Erie She behaved the best kind. and Cad was tickTed 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- Bion was to be historic one, and Cad was proud. But what did that Iocomo- 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 Jervis with the train only seventy miles from the start Cad Lyman was the worst feeling man, Y'spose. that ever had a locomotive kick with him, and he felt worse when he was ordered to take his balky engine off and saw Josh Martin hook onto the train wiIh old II loco motive that Cad had turned in SIS no good. Josh and old II 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 tC Piepmont to find the engine that had baked and sulked so outTageously with him on what ought to have beer the greatest trip on record, just turr in and let herself out so cheerGully ant lively on the way back that it was al Cad could do to hold her in! New, how do you account for that? It is true and matter of record Cad was sC