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| ‘Soldiers rest.’ picture taken about 1896. |
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of three stories.
The first of these consisted of four driving-wheels, about three feet in diameter, upon which the whole rested.
The second contained the boiler; and the third, directly over this, comprised the pilot-house and tender.
The driving-wheels were moved by pistons which worked vertically, and the whole structure rattled as if in momentary danger of flying apart into its original atoms.
It maintained its cohesion, however, and we began to move along.
Dodging his way as best he might, and waiting at nearly every station for any trains likely to arrive within an hour, our engineer finally succeeded in rolling us into Washing-
The Arakelyan press, Boston, 1909.
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