Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1899) (14737304246)

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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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mitting weight ofengine and tender. These trains are nowhandled by two engines, or what is knownas double header, and the use of double-headers on the Hiiffalo division will bestopped. Relieving the engines from double-head-ing service will enable the company to usesome of tliem im the Pennsylvania & New with couplers. In the application of airbrakes the company substitute metallicbrake beams for wooden brake beams, andin the majority of cases in applying coup-lers they substitute an improved draft rig-ging for what has been in service. The company arc strengthening theirtwin hopper coal cars by int/oducinglarger truss rods, so as to keep the cars upbetter at the center. As far as car and locomotive shops areconcerned, the company are putting up amachine shop extension, new paint shop,new blacksmith shop, new power plant,new car repair shop, new locomotive coal-ing station, new cabinet shop and new up-holstery shop at Sayre, and are to re-model the buildings at Weatherly for loco-
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ONE OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY FLYERS. wide vestibules and smoking compart-ments within the next sixty days. In ad-dition to this, four baggage cars are beingbuilt, two of them being 60-foot cars. Atthe companys request, the Pullman Com-pany took into the shop the parlorcars running between Philadelphia andBuffalo, and applied wide vestibules. ThePullman Company also placed newsuperior sleepers in the New York &Chicago line early in the winter. As far as locomotives are concerned, inMay and June the company receivednine heavy pushing engines for the Wyom-ing division, and later on will receivetwenty-five heavy consolidation engines forthe Buffalo division. Each one of the ninepushing engines will replace two of the York division, east, in place of light en-gines, which will be set aside. This willresult in their taking out of service thisyear not less than fifty-three of their light-est locomotives that are to be sold or con-demned. So far as the coal-car equipment is con-cerned, the Le