Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-23

where the long stretches OF level road
are before get to them, and in this
way | can calculate just where | can
make up any little time that might
have lost at the beginning Of the trip.
In some places in making run | will
go way ahead OF my schedule, but what
have gained here | will lose on some
other part of the road that Is not so
good. An instance OF this kind hap.
pens coming from Cincinnati here.
For about forty miles out the road IL
rather rough, and on account of the
grades-for the smallest of them will
take away from an engines speed
It Is hard to make any Roadway, but
after this there Is a slight incline given
to the road all the rest Of the way,
and as there are only two stops the
entire distance. which Is sixty.nine
miles. Is made in a few minutes over
an hour. In making fast runs 1t Is in
the stops and slowdOwns where an en-.
CINE loses time. You take, for in.
stance. train that has to be brought
to dead standstill 1t will require as
high as ten minutes before II can be
got well under way again, and when
you are going at sixty miles an hour
ten minutes counts a great deal.
Engines See native.
1T seems singular, but to a person
who is associated with engines all the
time they almost seem alive. This is
ON account of the sensitive machinery
about them. You cant any more say
what kind of time an engine Is going
to make when you start out with IL
than you can tell how racehorse is
going to run. Some days when you
take the machine out ii will worry
along, and you cant get 1t to running
fright during the whole trip. and then
at other times il will start of perfectly
smooth and you will have no trouble
whatever. The weather has much to
do with the way an engine works.
When the atmosphere is damp and
cold and the oil Is thick the machinery
works much harder than in dry, warm
weather when the oil remains thin.
Then there Is the difference in coal,
some engines will burn one kind bet,
ter than another. And the way the
wind blows also has much to do with
the speed that Is made.
The thing that helps ont the most
In making fast runs, and that which
makes them possible, is the Westing
house automatic brake. with this ap
pliannr tho engineer has absolute con
troll Ci tie train; and when he sees
danger ahead he can stop AT win. Many
people think that It Is putting too much
work OIL the engineer to have him
watch the brake, but it Is not. He by
all that is right should have full
charge OF the train, because he rides
In front where everything that trans
piTes on the track is in full view. I,
used to be that we would have to sight
danger long way ahead so as TO give
the brakeman chance to get tn,
brakes set In those days when you
whistled for brakes the men in the
train could never tell what you wantcC
to stop for, and, consequently, they
"blih luN E'N 'll'Il EN' bH 'lNllNhlN az
the engineer would have liked. As il
is now, when he secs anything thai
looks dangerous he can have the train
nearly stopped before the obstacle
comes into full view.
1T Is generally thought that the
speed the engines are required t
maintain" Mr.. Maggie went ON to say
greatly Injuries them, but | don't fine
that this is true. because 1t seems tina
, they are built for 1t. In fact, the en-
gines are much larger now than they
, were some years ago. When | frs
r began to run we carried about 49,
pounds of steam, while now we us,