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Show f ivun -nitii .sun. A Washington correspondontoi thoPhlla- I dclplila Telegraph was recently, looking I tit BOino models in tho National Jluscum of I -curious cars used in tho early days of rail- I raiding In tins country, when Mr. Watkins, tho curator, pointed out ono particular ono that had a must and sail. Experiments with I such cars wcro mado on tho Baltimore & I Ohio road and on the South Carolina road. I It was thon a serious question whether tho I motlvo power on railroads would bo sail, I :orso or steam, Tho steam locomotivo m ( was still looked upon as an experiment. I ' Sail cars aro used to-day on a guano rail-I rail-I -oad on tho island of Maiden, in tho south m I'aciflc. They arc, in fact, lined, noarer homo than that, for rail road men at Bar-I" Bar-I" negat beach, when tho wind is favorable, frequently rido over tho road on con W struction cars sloop-rigged. "Tho wind has n good deal to do with railroading ovon to-day," Mr. Watkins said. If you go to tho bureau of intelligence at tho Broad streot K station, Philadelphia, and ask whether somo train, say from Now York, is likely to bo on ' timo, you may bo informed that it is likely ; to bo four or five minutes late, because thoro is n strong wind from tho west. Winds W makoconsiderablo difference in tho run-R, run-R, ning timo of trains. |