The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-07-21

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was the quiet rejoinder.
Yes, he willw was McCloskey's
ironical comment when the drafts.
man had gone around 10 the other side
OF the great crane. THAT crane won't
pick up the 1876 clear the way she's ~
ing"
/ Won't it," said Lidgerwood. That's
where you are mistaken. IL will pick
up anything we have on the two d.
visions. It's the biggest ana best there
is made. How did you come TO get o
tool like that on the Red Butte West
| ernT'
McCloskey grinned.
You don't know Gridley yet. He's
a crank on good machinery. That
crane was clean steal"
"What3'
II mean IT, Ii was ordered for one
OF the South American railroads and
was on its way 10 the coast over the
Il. s. w. About the time II got as
far as COpab we happened to have "A
mixup in our Copah yards with n
ditched engine that Gridley couldn't
pick up with the sixty ton crane we
had ON the ground. So he borrowed
this one out OF the Il. s W yards, used
IL, liked il and kept 1t. sending our
siXty-ton machine on 10 the South
Americans in its place."
what rank piracyw Lidgerwood
exclaimed. Il don't wonder they call
us buccaneers over here. How could
he do it without being found outT'
THAT puzzled more than two or
three OF us, but one of the men told
me some time afterward how IL was
done. Gridley had painter go down
i'm the night and change the lettering
on our old crane and on this new
one. IL happened that they were both
made by the same manufacturing com
pany and were of substantially the
same general pattern. | suppose the
i. s. w. yard crew didn't notice par
ticularly that the crane they had lent
us out Of the through westbound
freight had shrunk somewhat i'm the
using. But I'll bet those South Ameri- |
cans are saying pleasant things to the
yet"
Doubtless I.idgerwood agreed. |
and now he was not smiling. The Ut. |
tie side light on the former Red Butte |
Western methods-and upon Gridley-
was SOLDERING.
MAN that handfall and take slack! |
Pay off, Darby" said Dawson to the
holster engineer more slack!
The great tackling hook, as big
around as mans thigh, settled accu-
rately over the 195.
There yeu arer' snapped Dawson.
Now make your hitch. boys, and be
lively about It, You've got just about
me minute 20 do IL inn
Heavens 10 Betsy said McClos-
iey. Hes going To pick IL up mt one
litch-and without blockingr
Hands off. Mac" said Lidgerwood
rood naturally. "If Fred didn't know
his trade before he's learning 1t pretty
apidly now"
That's all right, but II he doesn't
Freak something before he gets
But Dawson was breaking nothing.
LAYING designed locomotives, he knew
o the fraction of an inch where the
hitch should be made for
fitting one; also machinery and the
strains Of 1t were as his daily
read.
Now. then, Billy, try your hitch.
ut the strain on n little at q time !
nd often. Steady! Now you've got
er Keep her coming!"
Slowly the big freight puller rose
ut of its furrow in the gravel, right
lg Itself to the perpendicular as IL
anne. Anticipating the inward swing
II, Dawson was showing his men
ow to place ties and rails for n short
emporary track, and when he gave
'arby the stop signal the hosting ca
les were singing like piano strings,
nd the big engine was swinging bodi-
in the air In the grip of the crane
lckle, poised to nicely above the
EEL placed TO receive IL.
Dawson climbed up to the main line
where Darby could see
i'm and where he could see all the
arts of his problem at once. Then
Is hands went up to beckon the
acking signals. At the lifting Of his
niger there were growing Of gears
nd backward racing of machinery.
groan OF relaxing strains and n cry
"All gone" And the 1876 stood up
ght, ready to be hauled out when
he temporary track should he extend
to connection with the main line.
Lets go up to the other end and
'e how your understudy is making
, Mac" said the gratifled superin-
'ndent at Is quite evident that we
mt tell this young man anything he
1esn't already know about picking
p locomotives"
On the way up the track he asked
bout Clay and Green, the engineer
ld fireman who We're I'm the wreck.
They are not badly hurt" said the
'They both went home
/ 2O1."
Lidgerwood was examining the
ossties, which were cut and Scared N
the fianges Of many derailed pl
heels. n
You have no notion of what did