Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1895) (14737978526)

Identifier: locomotiveengine08hill (find matches)
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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with the Fall Brook,they put in three switchbacks on one sideand two on the other. The track is goodand the speed reasonable. The men handling these engines deservegreat credit for the way they have posted some sixty miles shorter than any other,and this, in its day, maj- cut some figure.Tlie existing lines are tied up by trafficagreements, but the ))rojectors of this roaddont generallv .ijet left on a businessproposition, and probably know what theyare doing. Mr. John D. Campbell is general mastermechanic, and was just getting settled intothe new shops when I visited him. It is asplendid plant, and when gotten into run-ning order will be able to handle lots ofwork—and there is lots to handle. Gearedengines are subject to a thousand ills that.straight engines wont take, and the waythey eat up gears and other parts is ratherappalling to a man not used to them.• They will climb a tree, however, and arethe best engines on earth to wreck with orto place cars or load material—you can
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nection being at Ke.iting Summit with theW. N. Y. & P. The road that they built is the best newroad, and has been equipped with the bestpower the writer has ever seen on a newline. The rail is 8o-pound Dulley sectionsteel, most of the bridges steel or cutstone. The stations are away above theaverage, and they are building one atGaleton and another at Wellsville to cost$8,000 each. The new shops at Galeton are the bestsmall shops I ever saw. The buildings areof brick, resting on cut stone foundationsand having all the modern conveniences. The engines are ten-wheelers for pas-senger service and consolidations forfreight, and are known to the enginemcn N.\NT.-vsKKT Be.\ch Electric Motor. themselves on air and main-line work, forthey do handle their engines and thebrake well. It is remirkable to find sixty-odd milesof new road so finely equipped as this.Another new line is being laid now, someforty miles long, to connect with the Erieat Wellsville. Probably nine-tenths of the business