More Bad Luck for Engine 27

Engine 27 seems to have had hard luck lately. Last week we spoke of one of her truck wheels breaking while pulling train 5. She was repaired, and on Friday evening was drawing train 4. About two miles east of Steamburg, the side rod on the right side of the engine (the bar which couples the two drive wheels) broke, and the engine was derailed. The engineer instantly applied the brake and reversed the engine and a catastrophe was averted. The engine, badly wrecked and bent, was, of course, unable to be got onto the track again until the wrecker arrived from Salamanca, and the train went into that station nearly two hours late. The engine will probably be rebuilt and made into a narrow gauge one. We were last week mistaken in the name of the engineer which is Coon - the engine being the "D. C. Colemen."

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