The Train Ran Five Miles Without Steam
Amarvelous race, upgrade and down, in which uiomenturn was the motive power, took ülace on the Consolidated road Saturday. Five miles below Stamford the cylinder head of the big engine, No. 247, blew out while the train was making express time. Instead of stopping and getting stalled, Engineer Scofield let the machine have its head and pulled into Stamford station on time, and not even the conductor knew that anything was the matter until the engineer called for another engine and No. 144 was put on and pulled the train to this city. The five miles were run without a pound of steam and solely on the momentum the train was under when
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