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Show Fireman fa Thrilling Ride Atop Locomohve Plaintield, N. J. While tw t Token driving rods were tearing up 't roadbed, road-bed, a fireman ol a Haiti:. ioic . ulilo locomotive climbed to the top of the engine and released the exhaust valves to prevent an explosion in case Ilia careening locomotive left the rails. The westbound express was traveling more than 40 miles an hour when the rods snapped near the Plaintield station. sta-tion. Engineer .Vi.irk S. Oondrighl applied the air brakes, but they did not function, func-tion, he said later. A bushing flung from the engine struck the upright of a small passenger shelter and caused It to collapse. Edgar Smith ol Plain-field, Plain-field, who was sitting in the shelter, was unhurt. Arthur Bien, fireman, climbed to the top of the locomotive and clung there amid clouds of strain while he emptied the boilers ttirouvli the valves Half 8 mile from where the rods broke the train stopped V was then that passengers first learned what had happened. |