Show A locomotive experience now how a rejected rayer I UP tp si M a brizo 31 I lAchine things happen when me men make up their anunda ands that they can cant t help happening it at is now over twenty years says ays a writer in the locomotive engineering since superintendent healy of the rhode island locomotive works built a passenger engine for t therold e id colony this engine had seventeen and one half by twenty two inch cy cylinders lindeM with a five foot wheel and the only innovation on the standard engines of the day was the trial of two and one quarter inch tubes instead of t two wo inch there being about one hundred and sixty of them before the engine ever mafe mad e a turn the general superintendent heard of th the e big flues and 0 openly n en 1 y announced that the engine would lever make the time with the rall fall river boat train for which it was built the master mechanic admitted that he believe it would ever steam and one by ba one the engineers shook their heads and allowed that it make it because it then the firemen announced that no man could keep it hot and no one ought to expect that it could be done fyie the engine was doubted from the start everybody said it could Ift malze make the run and ancl it it vi went ent on tile the road and was a failure from the start and after eighteen months service arvice it was rebuilt the general n dent paid the rhode island locomotive works atra for a new hosier boiler froming returning tu the old one like the old one except that it had two inch tubes he said he knew that the new boiler would steam and the engine make the time the master mechanic said he knew motoo so too and the engineers edginee rs and firemen agreed with them that now it was all right it was all right steamed we well 11 and made the time because everybody said it could and would some months afterward john thompson general bastar mechanic of the eastern railway wanted a seventeen inch passenger engine and wanted it as cheap as pos possible sibie he was induced to take the boiler discarded by the old colony after being thoroughly repaired none of the engineers knew the engine had an old boiler or flues larger than the ordinary mr thompson said she was a fine engine and would just play with their fastest and heaviest express the men all cou counted on her as a good steamer and a good steamer she was this engine never lacked for steam did her work well and as economically as the best engine on the road and is in the service yet running in sight of the scene of her former failure |