Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1912 — Lives the Longest. [ARTICLE]

Lives the Longest.

What machine lives the longest? It would seem to be the railway engine. The state department of France, which is concerned with the management (or mismanagement) of railways, has found on the western railway fourteen locomotives which are as old as the line Itself. They were built In 1864, when that portion of the railway between Rouen and Paris was in process of construction. Further, they are ascribed to the atalier of an Eng. lish engineer named Budiccon. The name does not appear English or Scotch. Still the work of the bearer remains, for those locomotives of the vintage of 1864 drag trains about the environs of Mans and Rouen today.— London Chronicle.