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ary railroad risk) cannot be displaced to make room for any who deserted us. In the equipment of the road (the cars, engines and station houses) there has been a change as the years have passed. Our illustration, the first engine and car, shows a marked contrast with the present. Some allowance must be made for old prints, as compared with modern photographic views, but we have seen a drawing, made by one we know capable, that tallies with this, which is said to have appeared first in Gleason's Pictorial and reprinted in some other in later years. The views in Barber's Historical Collection almost always showed men and boys under tall hats, and even the first steam train in America is notable therefor. In our old-time picture the engine men wear the more sensible cap, while the fuel shown is wood. There were then no coal-burning engines. Next there was Engine Cocheco, built at Lowell, on the Branch a long time; weight, twelve tons. And later, and for many years, the e