Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1914 — LOOK FOR TWO LOCOMOTIVES [ARTICLE]

LOOK FOR TWO LOCOMOTIVES

Lost, Strayed or Stolen, They Are Missing From a Leading English Railroad. Two locomotives have been mislaid by the Southeastern & Chatham Railway company of England. The loss was not discovered until the stocktaking returns showed a balance of two engines on the wrong side, and now inquiries are being made up and down the line for a pair of dark green locomotives, last seen at Ashford Junction. For one of the missing engines there is some excuse; it is comparatively new and inexperienced, but the other ought to have known better, for it has been in the service of the company for years. Stranded on some lonely siding or “bunkered” In some vastly terminus, the missing locomotives are forsaken and forgotten, while the rust is eating into their boilers. It has been hinted that a thorough spring cleaning might solve the mystery and incidentally produce other interesting remains. The railway officials are undecided whether the engines are lost, stolen, or strayed, but they are confident that sooner or later the wandering ones will return, it may be with damaged funnels and tarnished paint, but with their boilers in the right place. Whenever they turn their weary wheels homeward they will be sure of a warm welcome and no questions asked.