Show DONE IN A HURRY GREAT RAILROAD STUNT OF TUft LONG AGO Man Who Helped to Narrer the Grand Trunk Line Tells How the Work Was Pushed to Its Completion Iltclo Amo llyrnnt of Ilyraufa Pond MP took part In a railroad Btunt back I In 72 which makes ono realize that till much abused railroads have accomplished ac-complished sumo big things In 30 i years ado Amo helped as ho says to narrcr the Grand Trunk It way Uncle Ame surprise home folks to know that the Grand Tiuiik was originally built ton to-n live foot gaunt The result was endless trouble both when the Grand Trunk cars were sent over other lines or strange cars were to be run on the Ciand Trunk I Cars had to lie specially constructed to meet the contingency with loose wheels on one side so that they could be set over to fit whatever gauge might come their way These loose wheels were fastened with metal pins which weio forever working loose and causing all mannei of smashups Traffic buffered delays ensued and the system was eventual 1y I found to he impracticable I Something I Some-thing had to bo done about It Finally the wise ones got their heads together and agreed that the track would havo to be narrowed It would never do to suspend traffic while the herculean task was belnt accomplished The wise ones talked and talked and finally hit I upon a plan Uncle Ame helped carry out that plan Word came to u1 long In the turing at 72 that the old railroad was agoln to be nanerod he said to a repot tor That was good news mister The wide gauge was no end of bother what with truibfeirlif eight an pas engel wheels comln off perpetual tin trains ion mu iii ii Into I 111 I ditch i So we was glad to hear the standard gauge was ucomin spite o all the trouble and expense you bet First thing we had to do r see was to tin api ke one tall all I along the inside leavin jest thlee spikes to hold herAt her-At four a m we was all leaily on the depot platform Pretty soon along comes an engine and some lat curs to take us to our new positions Mine was furthest from the depot There yon be says the conductor conduc-tor lettin us off NoW you wal right here until you see two train pass with signs on the back car then bus S get busy Pttrty soon we heard a whistle ai along comes the eastbound makln things hum Tnant a great while before we hciol number two kitii along tother way Hy she whizzed In 1 a cloud of sit oko an cinders Stick In out from limo I back platform wo see tlw sign Last train going west Now Jump boys I hollered at they jumped some I tell yol They ceitainly did make then spikes fly One man held a gauge two was armed with drawbars an the rest had sledgo hammers an spikes Those with the bars i tin along pullli out the three spikes that held each rail others slipped the rail over to t the gauge an the rest spiked down to every other tie Mister that was snappy work I Iran Ir-an hour wed covered all but half II mile of our section an had the finish In sight where another section hlill I started |