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New Jersey Herald - March 16, 1881 issue
A practical engineer from Phillipsburg, who was employed a few days on the Sussex road, and then gave up his situation, does not, according to the Easton Express, give a very favorable report of the condition of the locomotives in use on this road. He says he "considers himself fortunate in not having been blown up. Every morning when he out he had grave apprehensions as to whether he would get back at night. The engines, beside being old, are not kept in any sort of repair, nothing being expended on them to keep them up., and beside that, the road is full of sags, track bad, and very trying to machinery. It is a wonder a man will risk his life long enough to make one trip with the scrap heaps.  

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