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It was a great scrape let me tell you. We never see hide ner hair of thet Albrecht or his partner till jist afore the main-line train pulled in goin' north. The choo-choo wus mighty nigh two hours late, so it wus fair daylight by then, an' we got a good sight o' them two fellers a-leggin' it toward the station from out the crick bottom, whar they 'd been layin' low.
The one certain item in the whole situation was that he had in his pocket a quite considerable sum of actual money, destined he hoped, but was not sure to take up the option at the proper hour. Nellie, impeccable to the last, accompanied him in the motor to Knype, the main-line station. The drive, superficially pleasant, was in reality very disconcerting to him.
The current, however, flows out through the main-line coil over the line and through the main-line coil 1 at B, completing its circuit to earth and magnetizing the bar of the relay, thus causing its armature to be attracted. On releasing the key the circuit is broken and magnetism instantly ceases.
We can unload our locomotive, steam shovel, and flat-cars on our own wharf, but unless Pennington gives us permission to use his main-line tracks out to a point beyond the city limits where a Y will lead off to the point where our construction begins we're up a stump." "Suppose he refuses, Bryce. What then?"
"You're wrong about that," said Lidgerwood definitely. "McCloskey thought so too, and told me that the frogs and point-rails had been taken out at Silver Switch at both of the main-line ends of the 'Y', but the last time I was over the line I noticed that the old switch stands were there, and that the split rails were still in place."
"I am sure of nothing with Daubrecq. * These are the only two main-line stations in Paris with the word de in their name. The others have du, as the Gare du Nord or the Gare du Luxembourg, d' as the Gare d'Orleans, or no participle at all, as the Gare Saint-Lazare or the Gare Montparnasse. It was past seven when Lupin and his companions left the Hotel Franklin.
Scrambling to their feet, they found an old push-car, with low sides. Alex uttered a cry. "Jack, why can't we make a dash down the spur with this old car pushing it? And say, couldn't we lift it onto the main-line rails, and run all the way home?" Jack hesitated. "Look there," he said, pointing to the wall of smoke into which the track disappeared a hundred yards away.
And the temporary station is almost completed," he added, glancing from the window toward a box-car which had been lifted from its trucks and placed on a foundation of ties beside the main-line tracks. Alex promised gladly. It meant the coming of Jack Orr and Wilson Jennings.
Then there's goods engines, great, strong things with three wheels each side joined with rods to strengthen 'em as it might be me. Then there's main-line engines as it might be this 'ere young gentleman when he grows up and wins all the races at 'is school so he will. The main-line engine she's built for speed as well as power. That's one to the 9.15 up." "The Green Dragon," said Phyllis.
The best estimate that can be made to-day as to the newly constructed road is that it has cost between $70,000 and $80,000 per main-line mile, or between $60,000 and $70,000 per mile of track.
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