Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1909 — Engineer Who Makes Time. [ARTICLE]

Engineer Who Makes Time.

“They do not run trains so fast in England, because Jhe engineers know too much about their engines,” said an engineer who has run an engine in that country. “In England a man has to be a compentent machinist before he is allowed to run. “They say that the man who knows all about how an engine is put together, knows how delicate some of its parts are, knows how many dozen and one things there are liable to break at any minute, hasn’t the nerve to run one of them eighty or ninety miles an hour. “The best engineers are the ones who don’t know too much about their engine—just, know enough to locate a pounding in a cylinder box or how to Unhook her on one side if she breaks a driving rod or something that way. That’s a theory at any rate, and I believe it’s pretty nearly right.”—Columbus Dispatch.