1908 - Caboose on the Jump

NW Mailing List nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
Fri Feb 8 19:31:41 EST 2008


If the worker who jumped on failed to stop it, tells me the hand break wasn't working. Ron H.

NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote: Don,
I should have mentioned that the last sentence was as printed in the
paper. Does appear that something was lost by the time it got printed. For
the curious, I attached a gif file of this section of article. This is the
typical quality of print these newspaper clippings are transcribed from.

I don't know much about newspaper technology, but assume that in 1908
they was still using lead type hand set?

- Roger Link


> The caboose fortunately met with no serious encounters and with absolute

> disregard to precedent, railroad regulations, and the dignity of things

> in general, continued its journey gaily. And it did not consent to stop

> until it was a half mile below the passenger station, where it came in

> contact with an up grade, that in railroad Thursday afternoon by the its

> independence.




NW Mailing List wrote:

> Ron and Roger ~

>

> Thanks for another great clipping! Could it be that your transcription

> of the article might have left out a word or two in the last sentence?

>

> Don Jackson

> _NWinNscale at aol.com_ (mailto:NWinNscale at aol.com)

>

________________________________________
NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
To change your subscription go to
http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/


---------------------------------
Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20080208/23122edd/attachment.htm>


More information about the NW-Mailing-List mailing list