Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14781278033)

Identifier: baltimoreohioemp01balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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imore & Ohiowhen a young man. Early Wednesday morning HempfieldYard showed signs of life. Piles of woodhad been placed along the tracks where theearlier models ran. Everything was inkeeping—old engines, old fuel, old men.Presently the smoke began to come outof the big stacks that were needed in theday before such a thing as forced draftwas known. Presently there arose aclamor of bells and whistles and voices,till it seemed as if each of the fifty yearswere shouting history. At last all joints of men and machinerywere limbered. One by one the enginesmoved slowly out of the yards, the greatthree-hundred ton Mallet, which was tofinish the procession, going first. In thefinal arrangement the horse-drawn carmanned by Peach and Smith led off.Next came Brady, Dee and Mahoneywith the Atlantic; Spurrier and Stauchwith the Jefferson, and Henry Elder onan old coach, probably the earliest rail-riding vehicle in existence on the conti- THE BALTIMORE AND HI EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 9
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nent; Mahoney and Brantner on theMississippi; Kirby and Hutchinson onthe first pioneer (Daddy of all the loco-motives that have run into Chicago, asMajor Pangborn calls it); Seibert andFosnot on the second pioneer; Provanceand Ingels on the Dragon; Fleming andSchwarl on the Camel, and J. B. Daugh-erty. master mechanic at Bemvood, and.). S. Little, Wheeling Division road fore-man of-engines, on the Mallet. ()n our cover the men riding the Atlan-tic are Mr. Spurrier, .John Smith and J.J. Brady. Running across the two mid-dle pages of the magazine the Mallet isshown with the little Atlantic in front. The Mallet is forty-three times thetonnage of the Atlantic. This type ofengine develops power rather than speed,beingused as a pusher onmountaingrades. Thousands of people witnessed theparade and crowded about the enginesin the yards both before and after the run.Kvery type of locomotive had its dueshare of attention. The older craft ap-pealed to the curiosity of the onlookers,but the great