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Show ECHOES OF THE RAIL. At Hraddock, I'a , three locomotive engineers bave been lined ten dollars each for illefral blowing of whistles. i The northern Ohio grape (shipments will reach about i)f0 cars this season, which i.s about 200 cars short of the normal year. FiuiNu up locomotives with oil is no longer an experiment. It is now the standard practice on nearly every road which looks after the small expenses. A Qi'kiiec paper says that the Quebec, Montreal & Charlevoix railway is to be purchased by W. K. Vanderbilt and extended ex-tended to the Labrador coast to make rapid connection .with a fast line of steamships. Ijhesioknt Van Bors, of the Canadian Cana-dian 1'aciBe. it is said, is favorably considering con-sidering a plan to run trains on the mountain division by electricity, furnished fur-nished by the water powerof the moiui-taiu moiui-taiu streams. Compressed gas for locomotive headlights head-lights has been used for some years in South America, and this light is being applied on twenty-five suburban engines en-gines now being built by the liroolts locomotive works for the Central railway rail-way of Hruzil. |