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FHE ROA\ANCE Iifeti^-J^I M>Iawi5myb8li&Im LOCQMOTI O FHE ROA\ANCE iifeti^-j^i M>iaWi5MyB8li&iM LOCQMOTI O :.i.^bl sm^ :,a?'fe-^:%.._ LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 385 V/67r The person charging this material is re- sponsible for its return to the library from which it was withdrawn on or before the Latest Date stamped below. Theft, mutilation, and underlining of books are reasons for disciplinary action and may result in dismissal from the University. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN MAYI^ APR? 3 ins L161 — O-1096 The Romance of Modern Locomotion A Uniform <w'ith this Volume Crown 8vo. Cloth, gilt. THE ROMANCE OF MODERN INVENTION By Arciubald Williams This volume deals in a popular way with all the latest inventions, such as Air-ships, Mono- Rail, Wireless Telegraphy, Liquid Air, etc. With 25 Illiistrationi THE ROMANCE OF MODERN ENGINEERING By Archibald Williams Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non- Technical Language of the Nile Dam, the Panama Canal, the Tower Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Trans-Siberian Rail- way, the Niagara Falls Power Co., Bermuda Floating Dock, etc. etc. JVith 24 Illustrationt THE ROMANCE OF MINING By Archibald Williams Containing Interesting Descriptions of the Methods of Mining for Minerals in all Parts of the World. With 24 Illustr.itions THE ROMANCE OF THE MIGHTY DEEP Agnes Giberne By" Author of Sun, Moon, and Stars," etc. A Account of the Popular Ocean : The Laws by wliich it is Ruled, its Wonderful Powers, and Strange Inhabitants. Second Edition. With 9 Full-page Illustrationt c '5a c ^ o O o < THE ROMANCE OF MODERN LOCOMOTION CONTAINING INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAILROAD SYSTEMS IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BY ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS AUTHOR OF "the ROMANCE OF MODERN INVENTION* "the romance of MODERN ENGINEERING" WITH TWENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED 38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET 1907 -bit' UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME THE LIBRARY OF ROMANCE Extra Crown %vo. With many illustrations, sj. each "Messrs. Seeley's well-known series of gift books, finely illustrated and in most attractive bindings." The Northern Whig. "These popular natural history books are written by competent authorities, and besides being entertaining are Instructive and educative."— r/ie Uuerpool Courier. By Prof. G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT, M.A., B.Sc. THE ROMANCE OF PLANT LIFE By H. COUPIN, D.Sc, &» JOHN LEA, B.A. THE ROMANCE OF ANIMAL ARTS AND CRAFTS By the Rev. J. C. LAMBERT, M.A., D.D. THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONARY HEROISM By G. FIRTH SCOTT THE ROMANCE OF POLAR EXPLORATION By ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, F.R.G.S. THE ROMANCE OF EARLY EXPLORATION THE ROMANCE OF MODERN EXPLORATION THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISM THE ROMANCE OF MODERN INVENTION THE ROMANCE OF MODERN ENGINEERING THE ROMANCE OF MODERN LOCOMOTION THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MINING By CHARLES R. GIBSON, A.I.E.E. THE ROMANCE OF MODERN ELECTRICITY By EDMUND SELOUS THE ROMANCE OF THE ANIMAL WORLD THE ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE By AGNES GIBERNE THE ROMANCE OF THE MIGHTY DEEP SEELEY & Co., LIMITED Prefatory Note The Author begs to acknowledge the kind help given him in connection with the collecting of materials for the illustrations and letterpress of this book by : — Mr. F. Moore (the Locomotive Magazine), the Proprietors of the Times, the Wide World Magazine;, the Strand Magazine, Engineering, the "^ Engineering Magazine, the Daily Express ; the Cunard ;• Harland & the Vacuun? Company (Messrs. Wolff) ; Brake the Pneumatic Company ; Signalling Company ; the Secretaries of the Canadian Pacific, and Atchison, and Santa F6 Mr. Holden <vj Topeka, Railways ; James ^" (Chief Locomotive Superintendent of the Great - Eastern Railway); Mr. D. Drummond (Chief Loco- motive Superintendent of the London and South- Mr. C. E. M.I.C.E. western Railway); Weightman, ; >- and Mr. A. Crosby Lockwood. "-) Contents PAGE . Introduction . • • n CHAP. into I. How THE Midland Railway came Being iS II. The Great Western Railway; or, the Struggle of the Gauges . • • 35 III. The Building of the Canadian Pacific Railway ....••• S3 IV. What the Canadian Pacific Railway has ' done for Canada . .68 V. The First of the Transcontinentals . 85 VI. The Highroad to Orange Land . , 96 VII. A FEW more Facts about the U.S.A. Rail- roads Ill VIII. The Railway as Conqueror . .129 IX. Mountain Railways 153 X. Fighting the Snow 164 XL How Life is Protected: i. In the Signal- Box .174 XII. How Life is Protected : 2. Brakes . .190 XIII. Accidents and the Breakdown Train 200 XIV. Indian Railways 215 7 Contents CHAP. PAGE XV. The Railway Surveyor and Engineer 235 XVI. The Development of the Locomotive 250 XVIL The Cradle of a Locomotive 268 XVIII. What the Expresses can Do 288 XIX. The Railway in War 298 XX. The Electric Railway 318 XXI. The Railway Mania . 33^ XXII. The Grain Elevator . 342 XXIII. Adventures on the Line 351 XXIV. Ocean Ferries 359 / 8 List of Illustrations 1. The Rivals Frontispiece' To 2. A Group of Broad-Gauge Engines face page 40 to the Rockies 3. The Entrance (Canadian Pacific Railway) ..,,.. 5^ P. • » ,1 64 4. Imperial Limited (C. R.) Wooden Trestle Bridge, 5. A Huge at Surprise Creek (C. P. R-) . „ » 72 6. Drifting Sand across Railway • Track . • • »> » '3" of Oil-Tanks on the 7. A Train Baku-Batoun Railway . „ ,,144 8. A Cutting on the Railway over THE Brunig Pass . „ » ^54 160 on a Swiss Railway . „ „ 9. Narcissus 10. A Snow-Plough at Work . » ,,164 11. In the Californian Snow-Sheds . „ „ 172 12. In the Signal-Box . „ j, 176 outside Waterloo 13. The Signals Station u »> 1S4- on the 14. The Thirsk Accident 208 N. E. R. » » 9 List of Illustrations 15. The Bombay-Calcutta E::press . To face page 224 16. An American Steel Viaduct on THE SaLISBURY-BeIRA RAILWAY, Mashonaland ....„,, 240 17. The Bridge over the Gorge below THE Victoria Falls (Cape to Cairo Railway) „ ,,248 18. The Rocket »> » 252 19. The Most Powerful English Locomotive -»•>> 264 20. One of the Heaviest Locomotives IN THE World ....„„ 272 21. The Planing and Finishing Shop, HoRwicH Locomotive Works . „ „ 280 22. The Turning Shop, Horwich Loco- motive Works „ 284 23. A Railway Motor Car . „ „ 304 24. The Berlin - Zossen Railway (Travelling at Top Speed, 130I miles per hour) ••••„„ 320 25. Kaiser Wilhelm II. (Before the Launch) , „ 362 10 The Romance of Modern Locomotion INTRODUCTION The countryside shimmers peacefully in the summer sun. As we rest on the bridge we are aware of the murmur of insect life that fills the air, and the trim neatness of the hedges that top the cutting, and the soft background of woodland and meadow melting away in the heat-haze. But our thoughts turn chiefly to the bright metal bars that stretch beneath us and far into the distance, where a bend in the track just saves them from the appearance of converging into a single whole. The telegraph wires, gently thrumming in the light wind, whisper the secrets of the railway. The gleaming rails are silently eloquent of its life and bustle for as the road tells its of ; dusty story many passing wheels, so do the polished ribbons below, fixed firmly to the well-packed sleepers, testify to the travels of the Iron Horse, that wonderful machine which, urged by the furnace flaming in its vitals, is the embodiment at once of human skill, and power, and resistless motion. II Romance of Modern Locomotion has moved—the A pulley-wheel squeaks ; something wooden arm in the distant signal. A mild excitement seizes us. We have seen the sight many a time of the before, but it never palls, this passing great express with its burden of precious human lives. Far in the distance is a moving speck of white, tresses of which, as we gaze, expands into long snowy the vapour, swept by the breeze across the emerald of the rattle of the landscape. Every now and then train is wafted to our ears, dying down as some obstacle intervenes. She is round the curve, heading from a straight for us at sixty miles an hour, kept disastrous plunge into the banks and hedges by the axle inch-deep flanges of the wheels. Were but an to snap, or a rod to part—then what destruction ! But before the half-fear has clearly shaped itself the express is on us, enveloping the bridge in its hot and the air is free we see the red breath ; when again end of the guard's van twinkling down the rails half is over the arm a mile away. The show ; semaphore an unseen and we are left to rises, moved by power ; our thoughts. This scene is being enacted in all quarters of the watched the of all the of the globe ; by eyes peoples earth. Let us give rein to our imaginations, and follow in spirit the express, no longer restricted by distance, but the World's Express, pursuing its head- long course across the continents. It passes now through well populated regions where snug dwellings nestle among the trees, and speak of peace and 12 Introduction prosperity. Now it traverses the depths of dark forests, rising threateningly on either side as though eager to step across the narrow lane cleft through them. It climbs the steep pathway blasted in the mountain side ; slides into the darkness of the tunnel where men bored and hewed for a many long month ; thunders beside the stream and impetuous ; emerges into the vast expanses of the rolling prairie. Now it crosses the hot plains of India, or the snow-clad steppes of Siberia. Here the Celestial watches it with there the flies its placid eye ; antelope affrighted by approach.
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