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are then sent to the erecting shop, where 

 we will follow them. Here, from many 

 centres, various parts of our new engine 

 have been sent. Already the frames are 

 being set into position on trestles. We 

 notice particularly this operation as the 

 greatest care is taken in getting the frames 

 absolutely square. On asking why this is 

 done so carefully, we are told that the 

 slightest error in this respect would prob- 

 ably result in the locomotive being unsatis- 

 factory for the whole of her life. It is, 

 indeed, a fact that in a batch of ten engines 

 one has often been found whose work was 

 always inferior to her comrades, and the 

 only reason which has been advanced for 

 this difference is that, in her building, the 

 frames were not well and truly laid. While 

 watching this careful frame setting we be- 

 come aware of a stir near us, and a tiny 

 little locomotive comes bustling along with 

 a bogie truck, on which is the huge boiler 

 that we left not so long ago in its shop 

 receiving the finishing touches. We notice 

 that the little engine, on its narrow-gauge 



