Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 23
gine-house, over andaround ponderous iron wheels, which keep it inmotion. Whenever a car is to be started, the driver hassimply to move a large lever, in the middle of it, down town, and in three minutes and a half becarried to the top of a high hill, many blocks away,—a hill three hundred feet… … STARTING OUT. this lever, beneath the slit in the track, grapplesthe running-cable, like a vise or jaw, and awaymove levers, cars, driver, passengers and all. You can see the driver in these pictures standingat his post. No one is allowed to speak to him, forhe must be constantly on the alert,…
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