>From NYT, June 10, 1901, Wednesday AMERICAN ENGINES ON INDIAN RAILROADS; Lord George Hamilton Explains Loss of Contracts by British. They Wanted Greater Price and Longer Time -- Contracts Were Decided on Strict Business Basis. The following, taken from The London Times, is the full text of the letter addressed by Lord George Hamilton. Secretary of State for India, to Sir Alfred Hickman, M.P., to which reference has been made in recent cable dispatches. Free pdf (1363 words) download at :- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9507E5DA1139E733A25753C1A9609C946097D6CF or http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9507E5DA1139E733A25753C1A9609C946097D6CF ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India

Hi, During the IInd war ,a lot of american locomotives ,of MAWD /AWd(american war deptt) were purcahsed for use in Assam when China was being supplied thru Assam. These were made in Philadelphia. In fact the line from Gauahati to Lekhapani was taken over by the Americans.they scrapped the absolute block system and ran trains on time interval. skp __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html