This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... he saw through the dark and the driving rain that "there was a sag in the track towards the far end." Instantly he blew a warning whistle to the engine following him down the hill, and ordered his fireman to "jump," while he himself set his air brakes and eased his valve. By this time he was well on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... he saw through the dark and the driving rain that "there was a sag in the track towards the far end." Instantly he blew a warning whistle to the engine following him down the hill, and ordered his fireman to "jump," while he himself set his air brakes and eased his valve. By this time he was well on the embankment, and having done everything possible for the safety of his engine and of the engine following him, he jumped from his engine just as it ran onto the "sag." The next moment the engine and the "sag" and a good part of the new embankment "weren't there." They had gone down the mountain. Simpson escaped without injury, and Fireman Moriarity got off with a broken rib. Before morning our track-layers had the track relaid on the old line so that traffic was not interrupted. Daylight revealed Engine No. 66 on her back about 100 feet down the steep mountain-side. Her tender was still coupled to her. On August i2th and i3th our men built a temporary track down the mountain to the tender, and by the evening of August 13th had the tender safe and sound back on the main line again. But the engine was not so easy, because the side of the mountain where she lay was so steep that any attempt to turn her right side up would have started her off down the mountain-side for an indefinite distance. It was therefore necessary to excavate the mountain side behind her till space had been made to turn her over safely and put her on her "feet" again. This having been done, the track used for the tender was extended to the engine and two immense sets of blocks and tackles with steel wire ropes were attached to her. As the gradient of the temporary track was 62 %, i. e., a rise of 62 feet for every 100 feet of track, it will be understood that these...
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