Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1896) (14761352152)

Identifier: locomotiveengine09hill (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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LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, 453
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4dl LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. New Central of New Jersey ExpressLocomotive. There are two competing railroadroutes between New York and Phila-delphia—one is the Pennsylvania Rail-road; the other is formed by the CentralRailroad of New Jersey and the Philadel-phia & Reading. There is always activecompetition between these two routes,but it never assumes the form of rate-cutting. The pretence of each is that itcan beat the other in speed. The am-bition of both appears to be to run the dis-tance of 90 miles in as many minuteswhile hauling a train of seven or eighthea\y cars. Neither of the companiesare doing this regularly just yet, but theyare trying to do it. The problem of get-ting over the division at the speed namedhas led to not a few new designs of loco-motives being brought out by all the rail-road companies interested. The latest design converted into work- chamber and tubes 13 feet long. Thereare 278 tubes ij4 inches diameter. The engine has been furnished withall the most a