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Renumbering Engines

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
November
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Under the old plan of numbering engines on the Michigan Central railroad tliere was no distinctiou as to the styJe of the engine, the uew ones being given the highest numbers rggardless of type. ïïv tliis means the uumber of the locomotive dicl not eonvey any impressiou to the mind, except as to its age. Robert Miller, superintendent, of motive power and equipiueot, Ikis just issued orders for a complete renumbering of thH engiues that will take from now to the iiist of the year to complete. By this systetn the enginës are divided iuto their variyus classes, and the uumber will teil just what work the engine is iutended for. On the oiain line between here and Chicago, the switch engiues will be uurabered from 1 to 150, the small ones taking to the even 100 and the larger ones the reuiainder; then come the standard engiues, used for geueral purposes, and they will be mimbered from 159 to 250. The Toledo división witli its 40 engines, will be nuinbered from 300 to 340 ; these also being divided iuto their respective classes. The Canada Southern división, also is arrauge by divisions into class oiumbers, from 340 to 499. Then comes the ten-wheelers, the big powerful fellows, numbering from 500 to 546. This iucludes only the present style locomotives. Of the old type, with a pres sure of 130 pounds, white the new ones have 180, a number have been sent to the scrap heap and the rest are to be numbered above (KK), as they are to be retired and the class wiped out when ) the time shall come. This provides a system for all time, as when one number below the 600 goes out of service its predecessor will be given the number of the old, the diagram in superintendent's office showing everything about the coudition, age and the like. Tiae Ladies' Home Jouitnal has secuued whtat promises to be the grea-t magazinje feature of 1898. It Is entilled "Tina Inner Experience.s of a Cabimet Jlember's Wife." In. a selies oí letters written by t.lue wife of a Oablnet mambeK to: lier sister ab home, are detailed her actual oxperiienoea in Washington, frankly and fi'&elly givOn. Tlue letters -vere writteii withoiit any intention of catión. They givo intima.te peep behiind tihe eurtaln of high o.fic-iil and soetal life. They are tübsolutely tearleea, tiliQ.y etuidy "Wasiiiautoni Ule under tUe searchlilght as it ha never becit before presentcdu The president and tlw; highíBt oíficials oí the land, wltth the raost brilllant meai and wo■men of t'lue capital, are sei'ii in the most wiay. As these are : 1 1 1 acttïal exparfence the name -of i tte wi ii 'i-v ts wil hliclii. Xhe lel terS will dwulbtless excite mjuch shrewd R'uiesstng by ieaders and study y inteimal cvidence to dtecover the secrot. The "Experlances," which wili be beautifully lllustrated, begin in the Dicembi-r nninbor and will continue [or sereral montlis.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier