Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — A Restive Engine. [ARTICLE]

A Restive Engine.

There was a strike in force, among the engineers of a certain railroad, and in order to keep things moving the management were employing men who had had experience running any kind of engines. One man secured had been engineer at a sawmill where his work consisted mainly In pulling the lever and starting the log against the saw, then pulling the reverse lever when the plank was cut off and running the platform back again. The yardman gave him an engine and told him to run it into the roundhouse. He climbed into the cab, pulled a lever, In obedience to which the engine slid' slowly into the roundhouse; arrived there he saw something must be done, and acting on previous experience pulled the-reverse lever. The engine promptly backed out again. “Here!” shouted the yardman, “what are you doing? Why don’t you put that engine in toe roundhouse?” “I did put her in," yelled the sawmill engineer. “Why In thunder didn’t you shut the door?*’ '