Show superstitions OF RAIL engineers who believe their locomotives X they lre up to adew york press locomotives are funny things an erie railway engineer ad I 1 have seen them sometimes lien 1 believed they were actually human they get the sulks and hive balky streaks and when they are in such you cant make time mith them adiv more than you can fly ilien again be as chip r and Ail lingan a thorsti g hared ho e and you actual y have to hold them in to kp from running into stations of time 11 r 7 ke abo oi joh jo h martin and G ad lamari two of the old time erie tile former being still alive I 1 the latter died only a y ear or sp ain 0 Neither of hern h ad a superior s kill as en josh asrun ning a locomotive that he was gread boand the sequel prove that the attachment mis mutual for some boason or other the superintendent of the road vianen locomotive for use on a portion oi tile load that lyman was running on and lie ordered lyman and mar ill to exchange engines tile old fellows who remember it say that hen josas engine was run ausy from port jeris josh cried like a baby and that the engine herself was all broke up at the parting for she aaa an hopr longer than rile should have been in getting to her new held of labor gad lyman took charge of lier but she had mado up tier gilad that she nt A ork under birn and she she persistently gut stalled etli the lightest of trains anti could riot be made to inake tier tinie under any circumstances after a weeks trial lyman reported 1 rid she was condemned an d Z n the gravel train between pier mont and suffern she worked as balky and sulky as ever and the bu per nten dent ordered her to be brouen lip and thrown on the scrap heap 1 I suppose the stub bornest loep motive that as ever put on the road mas one of the tva in sisters a couple of splendid machines built by the ne w york central a few 3 ears ago I 1 hey wen made exactly alike in every particular flow the same patterns by the same workmen anti of the same materials there a man on the road that could tell which was until their numbers were painted anthem they bere beauties engineers floweret tile duty on them ere the crivy of all alto bivs when the engines were put on trial one of them developed amazing novt era and strength site could take a freight train up gra d 0 it 1 ic a ly e tr j r t a n d v i t h A v e beir t ra vin can u 1 d s t r i k e a f 1 f 1 y di if in our gait with eme tile other one mouldan t goat all even pulled aide open site would give a few spiteful puffs of bialk a few her daiv ing u beele and anen would stop the way that bile exhausted steam allowed that she was a vixen 1 I 1 hey put her in the round bouse and kept fie r there for six months thinking that she might get over her sulad and run all right on another I 1 rial one day they fired tier up and t ried her bile started off like a ly and ran to miles in a little over to minutes then the old spell came over tier axall and slie took the sulks worse than ever |