The Schynige Platte Railway carries on its traffic with no more than four electric locomotives (with one steam locomotive in reserve).

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“I'd like sausage, eggs, bacon, toms, mushies, beans – oh, and some fried bread,” said Mike.

They must have been light, for, reckoned by the hundred, the average is not very different from that of the hundred-weight of iron; and clout-nails must have been of moderate size, as the value varies very little from that of horseshoe-nails.