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Show ECHOES OF THE RAIL. At TJraddock, Pa , three locomotive enpineerB have been fined ten dollars each for illegal blowing- of whistles. The northern Ohio grape shipments will reach about 8.ri0 cars this season, which is about 200 cars short of the normal year. Fntrao 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 Qledec paper says that the Quebec, Montreal A Charlevoix railway is to be purchased by W. K. Vanderbilt and cx-tnrtpd cx-tnrtpd to the Labrador coast to make rapid connection with a fast line of steamships. President Van Horn, of the Canadian Cana-dian Pacific, 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 power of the mountain moun-tain streams. Compressed g-as 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 li rooks locomotive works for the Central railway rail-way of Brazil. |