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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv16newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ly brakes on single-cartrain, and go further with six cars. We regret, exceedingly, our failure toissue the first of the color charts of theDesoe series in our last number, as in-tended; but accuracy of detail must beconsidered ahead of all features, and thismonth will see the belated chart in per-fect condition. i8o RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING April. 1503. Ascent of Hount Lowe. BY ANGUS SINCLAIR. Pasadena, Cal., March 11.There is a curious fascination in moun-tain climbing to some people, and I mustconfess myself a little touched with themountain climbing fever. I seldom lookupon a hill or mountain aspiring awayabove the surrounding country without more tireless than human muscle pro-vides the elevating power. I have donesome mountain ascents in Switzerlandand other places, in railway cars, andthey suited my taste, which leans rathertoward- comfort than toward physicaltriumphs. When I heard that the MountLowe Railway, one of the most cele-brated scenic mountain railways in the
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FIRST SECTION OF CLIMB. wishing to reach the top. In my callowyears that tendency frequently led tolong, exhausting climbs that left the torture of strained muscles for days after-wards and paid by pain for the pleasureenjoyed. Age has not cured the mountain climb-ing aspirations, but now-a-days I like tomake the ascents in a comfortable car orat least on something where a medium world, was within easy reach of Pasa-dena, where I was staying, no time waslost in making the ascent. Mount Lowe belongs to the SierraMadre range of mountains, which witha lesser range to the south, form thebarriers of the San Gabriel Valley. Theyspeak of other valleys within the naturalborders named, but it is really one greatvalley, in which are found the finest fruit- raising orchards of California. TheSanta Fe Railway traverses the valleyand forms the chief means of communi-cation with the outside world. Pasadena is in the Southern part ofthis valley, about ten miles from LosAngeles. It is situated on a s

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  • booksubject:Locomotives
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  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
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