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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 169

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from tivt-nry-five to thirty thou-sand million dollars. This probably rep-resents one-tenth of the total wealth ofcivilized nations, and one-quarter, if notone-third, of their invested capital.—Arthur T. Hadley in Scn//ierS Afag-atine. An Internal Railroad. Many railroad men from the countryhave… … The N.Y.Cenlral has an immense freightdepot at Beach street and West Broad-way, and cars from all over the countryarc there switched back and forth by anumber of mongrel locomotives. Theselocomotives are small, geared, dummy en-gines, on four small wheels ; they areboxed up like a car, have upright…

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