The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-08-24
RAILROAD NEWS.

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nesdsy morning.
A G. Pstrick's engine, the $50, came
out Of the shops Monday.
Charley Mcclure visited with his
family in Denver Sunday
/ A fire guard Is being plowed along
the Rock Island IN Colorado.
P. K Ryan has returned from a trip
to Pueblo and Cripple Greek
Fireman G. E. Hotel returned last
week from a visit in Lincoln, Neb.
Conductor Q. E. MeCaslin and fam
I lily have gone to Wisconsin for q visit
Engineer James Griffin will move
his family from Denver to GOodland
soon.
E II. Young has moved into the
residence recently vacated by S. ].
Pratt.
D. G. Derby made his first trip as
engineer to Phillipsburg Monday
night.
Louis Farrow is day caller Of cabOose
| crews IN the absence Of Richard
/ Thomas.
Charley Taper, Of Denver, is in
town visiting his brother, Engineer Al
I Taper.
Saturday was pay day, the amount
paid to employees at this point was
F. L. Place and family viii leave
this week for their former home in
/ Vermont.
Brakeman Clark Hodgkinson is here
from Denver to take a regular run on
l this division.
The wall up to the window sill Of the
round house has been covered with q
coat Of cement.
Engineer R. F. Coots has bought
rubber-tired run-abOUt. 1t is the
SWEETEST rig in town
No. 10, eastbOund passenger due in
GOOdland at 7:55 p. m, was two and
I half hours late Monday.
Doug Hathaway has purchased the
| George Teagarden residence and NOV
ed into the same last week.
Conductor Tom Edwards, Of the
| LimOn-Denver passenger run, was in
GoOdland Wednesday night.
"Count" MCGUIRE has moved his
family back here from Denver. They
/ will occupy the Foster residence.
George Hoef1er and wife returned
| last week from Chicago, where Mrs.
HOefier went for medical treatment.
Engine 500 made her first trip on the
local Wednesday morning with EngI-
neer Patrick and Fireman Sherman.
Engineer Tom Kelly acted as pilot of
the Union Pacific special on its run
from Limon to GOodland and return
Brakeman William Taylor has been
promoted to conductor. He made his
first trip in that capacity Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Robertson, who
we're intending to visit in Iowa, we're
compelled to return to their home in
Denver owing to the sickness Of their
baby.
Charley Short and Harry Blaine
were the machinists who took charge
OF the wrecked engine, No. $50, which
smashed into the rear end Of freight
train No. 90 last Friday morning.
Engineer Joe Berry and Fireman l.
e. Foster came down Sunday evening
from the Denver run. They took back
the 9O9, which was brought from HOr-
ton, having been thoroughly over
hauled.
Engine 697, which was smashed up
in the head end passenger collision
three weeks ago, was displaced while
in the shops at Horton for repair by
engine $50, and now this engine is also
a wreck.
Engine 895 has returned from the
Horton shops where she was sent to
be repaired from the damage sustained
in the collision near Bethune on July
y. Engineer Hartman and Fireman
Pickenpaugh brought her up from
Phillipsburg last Friday.
Caboose No. 1908, which was con-
verted into kindling wood in the rear
end collision near Bethune, Col,
has been "hodoO" to railroad men.
1t was the cabOOse which was crashed
into at KanOrado last year, the acci-
dent resulting in the discharge Of Con-
ductOr Mort Justus. Then came the
ditching near LimOn Of a freight train
this same csbOOse sttached-that let
out Conductor Odeu and Engineer
Greenman. But now il has gone and
the Rock Island shall know it no more,
but not until it got Conductor Cullen
and Brakeman Place, whose discharge
is the last act in the career Of this ill
fated car.
On the Great Northern railway Of
/ England the problem Of automatic
couplings has been ingeniOIsly solved
/ As a foundation the automatic coupler
Of the Master Car Builders association
/ of the United States has been taken,
and this had been modified 50 that it
/ is incorporated with the ordinary Eng
/ lish hook and chain. When the coaches
| are to De coupled automatically, the
/ couplings are so arranged as to be held
/ rigidly in a horizontal position when
| they engage in the usual way common
in the United States. If, however, the
I carriage is so fitted as to be incOr-
pOrated with an ordinary train, the
automatic coupler is allowed TO hang
| vertically and the hook common to
British carriages is exposed, and can
be used with a shackle exactly in the
usual manner. The side buffers are
arranged so that they can be run back
out Of the way when not required, but
/ If the hook and shackle are used they
are brought forward and held extended
I BY a half sleeve on the shsnks; the