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Show Be f . -r mm vim .wim. M A Washington corrcspondontof thoPhlhv lii dolphla Tolugraph was rccontly looking 1 ut somo inodols in tho Nutloiml Museum of curious cars used in ttio early days of rail-I rail-I roadlng hi this country, when Mr. Watkins, - I tho curator, pointed out ono particular ono ' that had a mast and sail. Experiments with I ' such cars woro mado on tho lialtimoro & I Ohio road ami on tho South Carolina road. i It was then a sorious question whether the motlvo powor on railroads would bo sail, ;orso or steam. Tho steam locotnotlvo Was still looked upon as nn experiment. Sail cars aro used to-day on a guano rail--oad on tho island of Maiden, in tho south I'aciflo. They aro, in fact, used noaror l homo than that, for railroadmen at Bar- I i . negat beach, when tho wind Is favorablo, H frequently rldo over tho road on con i struction cars sloop-rigged. "Tho wind has a good deal to do with railroading ovon jl to-day," Mr, Watkins said. If you go to tho bureau of intolligciicu at tho Uroad stroot station, Philadelphia, and usk whether somo ,1 train, say from Now York, is likely to bo on jj time, you may bo informed tbatltislikoly m to bo four or flvo minutes late, because KB there is a strong wind from tho west. Winds IS makoconsldarablo difforonco in tho ruw- II rdng timoof jLralns. ... s w vJr |