Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-12-03
ENGINE GREW TIRED
Of WAITING FOR
ORDERS
BIG LOCOMOTIVE STARTS
! ON HIKE FOR VEGAS
Steals Softly Out of Local
Way to Hahn When Placed
Under Arrest and Returned
to Captivity


There are unimaginative people who
claim that locomotives do not have
thoughts and desires and feelings like
people and engineers, but those peo-
pie are victims of ignorance. Every
day. the old time engineers will tell
YOU. the big Santa Fe locomotives
give evidence of a finely organized
brain that works and works inces-
sanity and sometimes gets locomotive
and engineer into trouble.
There is the case of Santa Fe en-
CINE No, 1919. for instance. The 1919
is one of the great, all powerful
freight engines which can drag a train
of forty cars over Glorieta without
feeling tired at all. But there are 9TH
er ways to tire a locomotive. Yester-
day morning at 5;45 o'clock. after
standing under steam for thirteen
hours on the round house. siding, wait
ing for orders from Las Vegas. the
1919 grew very weary of doing moth
ing. She had been tied up so long
that she couldn't stand it any longer.
Unimaginative machinists in the
back shops say 1t was a leaky throt-
tie that did it; but the engineers say
she just got tired n did it herself
Any way, at the hour named the
1919 softly began to creep ava from
iltl llOoIiliBSs NJ Oht uOliIth Itlf
and she made her way up past the
water tanks and out beyond the coal
chutes without even waking the SPAR
rows that nest in the frame work. She
did not blow her whistle or ring her
bell. for the 1919 was running away,
and she did il in a manner that would
have done justice to an ardent sutton
clipping with his hearts desire from
under fathers nose.
" nsI1 4 a 4 a $3.50. I.n- 49, L.a,.wh
the yards. over innumerable switches,
past the viaduct. past the station and
the Alvarado, and by the time she
crossed the Tijeras road she was hitting
II off at the rate of twenty miles an
hour and gaining speed at every jump.
How the engine managed to get over
all the switches without hitting some-
thing or throwing herself off the rail-
road men fail to understand. But she
did IL, and when the hostlers at the
round house discovered her absence
she was well out of the yards and hik-
ing past the brewery at a tremendous
rate. Engineers Whiting and Cook
happened to be In the round house
waiting to go out. They were in the
a b of engines Nos. 1866 and 1870.
and promptly gave chase. They went
through the yards at tremendous
speed and after a record-breaking run
oNtIlDoh lnt tnltTDIlSllR
just as she was nosing out of the
north end of the switch at Hahn. hit
ting il off at twenty-five miles an
hour. The engine was brought back
and given a careful examination in the
shops. Nothing wrong could be found
with her save a little leak in the throt-
tie. and this is supposed to have given
her her liberty. As a penalty for her
bad behavior the runaway was penal
fznI -. naII "a Kfu FYaf.t,F -, H. - 7 90. I
Vegas, leaving Albuquerque ut noon.
The railroad boys. because of her clev-
erness in getting past the switches in
safety, ave named the 1919 the
High stopper"
5. E.. Busser. superintendent of the
reading rooms of the Santa Fe system,
has prepared an excellent program of
entertainments for the local reading
room his winter for the benefit OF
the trainmen and their families.
Mrs. Mary Gregory Murray. of New
York City. a splendid pianist and mu-
stefan. talked last night on Search
lights In Modern Music study" Her
discourse upon musical topics was very
interesting and her plano playing eX-
cellent. II Is believed that an enter
tainment will be furnished the train
men once a week during the entire
winter.
George T. Rex. assistant superin-
tcndent Of the tie and timber depart
ment OF the Santa Fe. arrived here
yesterday from Topeka.
l.. G.. Gould. formerly employed at
the local shops, and lately chief clerk
10 Master Mechanic Peden. OF the
santa Fe Central. at Estancia, has re-
turned to Albuquerque. accepting a
position as timekeeper in the ma
chine shops.
Michael Weber. roundhouse fore
man here. spene sunday among the
foothills hunting with his two sons.
sky G.. Overstreet. division special
agent Of the albuquerque division. is
IN the city on a business trip.
An investigation is being made Of
he wreck of No. s Saturday after
noon at Toltec by Santa Fe officials.
and while their report will not be
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