Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1897) (14574642307)

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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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f freight trains is limited to20 miles per hour, while the fast expressis limited to 35 miles per hour. All distances are measured by the verst. Locomotive Engineering that required for ten incandescent lights,is said to make it as powerful as an or-dinary arc lamp, and is between 800 and900 candle-power. A movement has been started in Eng-land by Mr. C. E. Stretton in favor of aNational Railway Museum. There are agreat many relics of railway appliancesthat have valuable historical interest, thatwill soon be lost to posterity unless somesystematic method is established of col-lecting and preserving them. It it a pitythat the movement did not take activeform forty years ago. Had that been thecase, hundreds of articles, long ago de-stroyed, would have been preserved thatwere of the greatest value as relics of earlyrailroad efforts. This is the case whereBetter late than never is good phil-osophy, and we heartily wish that greatsuccess may attend the movement. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 151
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