Excerpt from Old Ninety-Four, the Boy Engineer's Pride, or Life and Luck on the RailOld Jason sat in the cab window with his hand on the throttle and his rugged face looking into the wall of mist ahead.The boy fireman shoveled coal into the furnace and kept the steam up to a high mark. It was a fast run from Ster ling to White Lake and the stretch of one hundred miles was done in less than two hours, as a usual thing.There were but three stops. The rest was swift driving over long grades, around great curves, through a quarter mile tunnel and over many bridges.The S. W. L. Was a double track road, so that there was little danger of one train meeting another.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.