The King of Locomotion.

The railway engine is the exception to the general rule of loco-commotion. The railway locomotive moves with the greased precision of an oiled eel. It is melodious but not smellodious. It is the personification of Power Without Pandemonium. It sings at its work, but never yelps, and it never rails although it runs on rails. Although it possesses the oilyness of the eel, it also boasts the agility of the antelope and the elements of the elephant; it combines speed with strength and smoothness with both. The lesser animals follow on the track beaten through the jungle by the mighty elephant, but this fact does not detract from the mightiness of the elephant.