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The locomotive engineer (1888)

Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916, Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York : American Machinist Pub. Co · leaf 168

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engineer as we sat up behind him notlung ago. Well, Ill bet you $400 youcant guess what it was for. We did nothave the change, so he gave it away fornothing. When the air brake first cameout, I got one of the old-fashioned pumpswith the valve tappits outside, and it u^edto have a habit of stopping… … We present to our readers with thispaper, some illustrations of an enginewith a sad history—the one that took theplunge into the Tay, Scotland, when thegreat bridge that crosses that arm of theNorth Sea went down. The bridge over the Firth of Tay —between Newport, on the south, andDundee, on the…

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