Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1896) (14758644361)

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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4 inches, together with the transversetie-rods, spaced 4 feet 5 inches, roundsout a rigidity to the foundation that is rep-resentative of the best practice in bodyconstruction.
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NEW POST-OFFICE CAR, BUILT BY ERIE RAILROAD. Our illustrations, for which the printswere kindly furnished by Mr. A. E. Mit-chell, superintendent of motive power,deal with the framing and construction.These cars are without the platforms andhoods, said by many to be useless and ex-pensive relics handed down from theearly builders of railway rolling stock.If any need for these ever existed, it wouldappear that it has passed into the beyondat this time. They are going the way ofsome other fads that cannot give convinc-ing reasons for their existence, for inthese utilitarian times the demand for ashow-down may be relied on to take thecurves out of things crooked. The in-terrogation point is most potent in work-ing reforms. ous ways, all of which have been an im-provement over the old method; and this,one of the latest, is easily one of the bestyet devised to resist end shocks, for thereason that the iron plates are placed soas to receive the blow in the direction oftheir greatest resistan