When the large handwheel seen in the illustration of a 68000 class cab is moved from stop to run, the traction circuit contactors are closed and the locomotive moves off with the diesel engine running at idling speed.

thread a needle

Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

In a corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo.Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co.