The Yang River has overflowed its banks due to the recent heavy rains, and has submerged the track to a depth of about two feet for nearly a mile between Peitaiho" Junction and Liushouying, the next station east of Peitaiho Junction, The locomotive ploughing through two feet of water makes a novel spectacle, for the water plows up to a height of some five feet at the engine's prow.
This in spite of the slow speed which the train is obliged to take where the track is under water. Even the cars plough up a watery furrow to a height of several feet where the front end of each car catches the water.
To the passengers the cars seem like flat bottomed boats being towed at high speed through a. lake, and they enjoy the novelty of having their landlubber vehicle take to water.
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