An Exciting Moment.
•Speakin' of the Lake Shore Railway, did 1 ever tell you aboub the gang that used to hold up trains on the W. C. and A. I' queried the engineer, as he wiped his handa upon a bunch of waste and sat down bn tho log beeide the fireman and conductor, while the train waited on the siding for No. 8 to pass, says, a writer in the Philadelphia • Times.'
4 You never did, Bill. Let's hear about 'em, 1 said the conductor, helping himself to a generous chow of the fireman's plug. 'It was back in the seventies. I waa runnin1 an engine between Charlotte, N.C., and Charleston, pullin 1 the one passenger train which then run each day. Although tbe distance is only about a hundred miles, it took nearly twelve hours to make the trip. Jack Robinson ran the other engine which pulled the up train while we were goin' down, and vice versa. We ueed fco pass about half-way down, and as there was no tolegraph line along the road, the standin' rule was that one train musfc wait till the other one came along, except that after two hours, in case the opposin' train didn'ti appear, tho first one could go ahead with a flagman in front.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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