Show I WEARY RAILWAY TRAINS Tired Axles and Fatl uedHails Are not Empty Figures of Empt Figres Speech Passengers on certain railways notorious noto-rious for their snaillike speed may be Interested to learn that a brandnew excuse can be concocted for Ia4e ae arrivals arri-vals or even tardy departures In fu Lure Irritated travelers who still cher fh a love of justice must ask if they are 01 a weary train before volleying YOleYln forth their unkind maledictions at the heads ot blameless officials Trains like human beings are more easily wearied the older they get and the giddy darting motion which they found easy to accomplish In the heydey of youth sobers down as tho years creep on Into a slow and more or lees uniting progression Then comes a Period when If human they would u take to crutches ° r n grandfathers stick but 8tek as no satisfactory crutch has been devised for railway trains crtch they are allowed to potter about on subur ban lines just for all the world mbu1 as If they werc In a back 1 garden tuiiyiaWCrc > tulips sarden raising It may sound to ma strangely hear per lions talking about a tired steel axle or a fatigued a Cot Iron rail but that sort or talk Is hoard along hlard railways and in maclllne shops and Is considered cor rect The idea of Inanimate metal be coming weary may be your thought but experts familiar with the ways of machinery say that work makes It tired < and that It needs rest as you do What caused the axle to break asks the traffic manager Fatigue of thc metal > answcrs the I spector nnswer That answer Is frequent and in accordance with the fact At times often lmes an axle breaks or a rail parts or a wheel separates under much less than a the usual strain and the most careful examination possible will show creCul wI no de feet or weakness This leads engineers to the charge result fatigue ° r the metal wJh I Sinews of steel can tire as well muscles of brawn and metal that an 1 does not havo Its rest w111 cease to do Its work and may cause great damage At i geot least damag fe so the engineers say and assert that molecules without rest the affinity asert tho of the metal for each other 1 1 X ea weakened until the breaking point is reached Then comes breakng London uuie I LOndonEpress |