EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY DUEL.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 22 March 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY DUEL.

Everyone has heard the sto^y oi the two goats who, meting on a narrow plank bridge, hutted and fought for the right of way. A somewhat similar incident, says the New York correspondent of the Manchester Examiner, took place a day or two ago in Brooklyn, between two freight trains at a railway crossing. Traffic over the latter was Relayed for over an hour by tb,?t obstinate rivalry of the two engine-drivers who, having mot on the' same track, would, neither of them consent lo reverse their locomotives, and thus make way for th,o other. The two engines were facing one another, and the language of tho two drivers was of a nature to render the atmosphere in, the vi,cini,ty redon i lent of t>,ri,m,s,tone. Every now aud | again, th>ey wouljd interrupt their | profanity jn order to pull tueir levers | and force baok each other's train. But the locomotives were equally matched, both in power and weigh^ and all efforts to butt on.Q another back into the yard, were doomed to failure. &.% length the driver of the noj-th bound train saw an engine, coming out of the round-house, Ty.3a}oh was manned by a ccvuj^e of his friends. Up yz^dfately signaled, ttjom, au.d they came to his rescue by running their locomotive up to, the roar of his train. T/U,en Both engineers started up their respective locomotives simultaneously, and by their combined strength the south bound train was successfully pushed back and th,e grossing cleared. Sevpra} thousand persons witnessed this, contest, which was of a novel and characteristically Afflerioaa. nature,

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