Henshaw yelled at his fireman and Benson grinned and motioned for the engineer to open the throttle.
I guess we gave the boys behind a thrill," yelled Henshaw and the fireman nodded as he straightened up to rest his weary muscles.
I finished firing on the run into Vinton and this morning they found the fireman lying along the right-of-way.
Henshaw and his fireman read them together to make sure that they understood every order.
When the iron doors of the firebox slammed shut and the fireman straightened up, the engineer introduced his fireman, Harry Benson.
Tim was fascinated by the precision with which the great locomotive worked, with the confidence the engineer displayed in its handling and with the dexterity of the fireman as he fed fuel to the firebox.
Tim was used to sudden shocks but the one of turning to look for the fireman and finding him gone was one that would remain with him through life.
Duck down behind the boiler when I yell," said the engineer and Tim and the fireman nodded that they understood.
The fireman was in great pain from his broken leg, but he was making a brave attempt to smile.
Hundreds of gallons gushed into the tank on the tender and the fireman had just completed his task when they got the highball.
There was no joy in the cab of the 1064 over their victory with the flames for Henshaw had lost the best fireman he had ever had.
The fireman scrambled down off the swaying tender, opened the firebox, and started throwing in coal like a man possessed.
Ralph wrote the story of the investigation and then Tim dashed off a column about the fireman who, his leg broken, had laid along the right-of-way with the flames threatening to bring his death.
Tim marveled at the easy grace of the fireman as he swung back and forth between the cab and the tender, feeding great shovels of coal into the hungry firebox.
If I get back to the west I shall have to work my passage back to England as fireman or stoker, or in some such ignoble capacity.
To-day I have seen a photograph of the original fireman of the ‘Rocket,’ who lives here, and has made a large fortune by contracts.
The cab shook so that my fireman couldn't stand to fill the fire-box, so he dumped the coal on the floor and got down on all fours and shoveled it in.
In the meantime I had put the fireman on, and we put the finishing touches on the engine, No.
I told my fireman that if we couldn't pull her through on time we would leave the train on the side of the road, and thus teach a trick or two to the man who wanted to run a mountain road on Eastern methods.
The fireman is busy ringing the bell, and the engineer, from time to time, adds to the warning noise by one of those indescribable toots made only by a steam engine.
He was told by the officials that he took the ride at his own risk, and as a matter of personal favor, and that he must not interfere with the engineer or fireman in the execution of their duties.
The fireman observes that the occurrence has somewhat unnerved us, and in a good-natured way assures us that a little thing of that kind doesn't amount to anything.
I told the fireman that the old girl was quitting us, and that we might as well steer for new jobs.
But the two great, gnarled hands of the fireman held him as if in a steel vise.
For a flash he thought it might be some fireman taking French leave of the ship.
I think I can explain, sir,” said Jack, while the captain still kept the cowering fireman covered.
No; there’s the fireman and an engineer left on board,” said the watchman.
He hailed a passing fireman who was coming off watch and going forward.
A grimy fireman had run forward from the fire-room companionway and then the captain had hastened aft.
Of course, the engineer and fireman could reach us, but these men were always indifferent, and never interfered, their business being ahead instead of behind the engine.
On coming down the mountain side, the brakes had refused to work, the fireman had jumped off in time to save his own life, and the others had all been precipitated with the train into the valley and killed.
Well, if there was a firemanhere with a long ladder, then you could get down,” said Bawly, wiggling his toes.
But there is no fireman here,” objected Uncle Wiggily.
I looked out of the window and saw the conductor quietly telling the fireman something that amused them both, and I at once knew they meant to give me "a mile a minute" ride.
Uline had been a fireman and was very popular with the young men of the city.
The new steamer was lodged with Hope Engine company, and an engineer and fireman appointed at a salary of $1,600 per year for the two.
As the boat was booming along through the water close in-shore, for, in ascending the river, boats go as close as they can to avoid the current, a negro on the beach called out to the fireman that the wood was on fire.
While at table, Rinser, Assistant Washer, Catcher and even Chief Washer and Chief Fireman laughed a great deal as the various incidents and mishaps of the morning were recounted.
A train passed that day, out of which engineer and fireman gazed with wondering eyes at what had been Benton.
More of the work-train men gathered round the group, and the engineer with his fireman approached.
In all of this no fireman had been consulted--no attention paid to the B.
That where time is not allowed, the Master Mechanic shall cause the trip report to be returned to the engineer or fireman sending it in, stating why the time is not allowed, as soon as practicable.
The fireman was shoveling in coal, wasn't he--firing up?
Did you ever perform the duties of an engineer or fireman at any time in your life before this date, on any road?
Did you ever draw pay as an engineer or as a fireman at any time in the employ of this or any other railroad company in the United States before this?
The caller shall have a book, in which the engineer andfireman must register their names and time when called.
The fireman and flagman were on the engine, and two brakemen were asleep in the caboose.
Scott in charge and Fireman Charles Hood for assistant, was hitched to a single coach out in the yard.
The engineer and firemansprang from their cab, conductor and trainmen came running up, and the passengers swarmed from the cars.
The fireman was already on the tender, ready to slew over the pipe that would bring a cataract of water down into the reservoir.
Two masked men covered the startled engineer and fireman with their revolvers and ordered them to hold up their hands.
Neither engineer nor firemancould be seen in the cab.
They then escorted me to the engine house, where I found my fireman Manuel already a prisoner; also Beaumont, the other engineer, and his fireman.
The fireman came down the platform, both engine oil cans in his hands.
I asked permission from the leader to allow my fireman to go and draw some oil, explaining that I had none and it was necessary, that his going there would not create suspicion, and it would save much time.
About ten o'clock at night, as the train slowed up as usual to take water, the engineer and firemanwere covered by two of the robbers.
The other two--there were only four--cut the express car from the train, and the engineer and fireman were ordered to decamp.
Nobody but our train crew and my fireman knows anything about this.
He knowed I'd git ketched the minute a newfireman come in, Neighbor.
It was no trick for him to put away fifteen minutes discussing the rights of man with himself; and with an angel of a fireman to watch the cab, why not?
The fireman quit the cab immediately after Maje exposed himself; the conductor communicated with him only by signals.
She had a new fireman on, who was burning the life out of her, and as she puffed painfully down on the scrap rails of the first siding and took the Y, her overloaded safety gasped violently.
Monsoon reversed and jumped off after him so quick he knocked the fireman over in the coal.
The fireman on his knees held his lamp out under the flat that spanned the contact; he drew shrinking back, and rising, started on the run for the depot to rouse Callahan.
Delaroo, fireman the 264, missing," wired Sugar Buttes to Medicine Bend a few minutes later.
Defn: The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
A series of evolutions performed by fireman for practice.
A board or narrow platfrom upon which one may stand or brace his feet; as: (a) The platform for the engineer and fireman of a locomotive.
Fire teaser, in England, thefireman of a steam emgine.
What business had a railway fireman telling him, a mine manager, what to do in case of a row?
Toomey, of 'E' Troop, fireman on the big freight-engine!
Toomey, too, had been favored with a word from Mr. Anthony, and never had Big Ben seen his fireman more cheery over his work than he was that night as they panted and strained up the foot-hills to Chimney Switch.
Even at the hardest kind of shovelling they outlived every other kind a dozen weeks, and the fireman was a lucky malefactor who could induce a soldier to part with his.
I wouldn't be that kind," He had always wanted to be a fireman who helps to put out fires.
When on the flagship I learned that my fireman had clung to her rudder chains and been taken on board.
Then directing the engineer and fireman to keep below, and give me all the speed possible, I gave a double-barrel gun to the pilot, with instructions not to fire until I should do so, and steered directly for the monitor.
One fireman was killed on deck, but the rest of the crew reached the boats in safety, although firing was continued all this time.
The chief engineer was killed, and the master, third engineer, and a fireman were wounded.
The remaining six men managed to get ashore, but soon after landing the second engineer and a fireman died on the beach.
He revived this man, and together they started rowing for land, although the firemanwas not able to do much work.
Fifteen minutes afterwards a fireman lurched overboard and was drowned.
On Saturday morning a fireman was found dead in the bottom of the boat, and during the day a third-class pantry-boy died.
He signed to the Spanish fireman to back the launch astern, and clutched the rope Jefferson flung him as she drove across the lighter's bows.
There was no answer, and Austin turned to the fireman again.
It was dark now, but the moon was shining, and he was not surprised to see a sooty fireman clambering in haste up the bridge ladder.
We don't want to lose our own firemanright in the height of the season.
Girls, do you realize I have been official fireman all summer?
Turn back to page 30--look at that picture of the fireman rescuing two children from the flames.
How she cried, and thanked God, and pressed the hand of the fireman and thanked him for saving her children's lives, dearer to her than all her household goods.
