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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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ipline in France. In the December issue of LocomotiveEngineering was published an illustra-tion of a very striking accident whichhappened in a railway station at Paris,where the locomotive of a passenger trainran through the end of the station build-ing and fell down into a street twentyfeet below the level of the track. The particulars of the trial of the enginedriver and guard for negligence in en- of the conductor. The latter also dis-obeyed rules, in that he did not open hisWestinghouse brake valve on hearing thewhistle, but put on the hand brake im-mediately; but this fault was consideredtrivial, in view of the fact that the generaluse of the automatic brake has ted to thealmost complete abandonment of the oldbrake signals. i ^ i Black Diamond Express. The Lehigh Valley Railroad, which hasalways been considered strictly a coal-carrying road, has in late years been de-veloping some passenger business, es-pecially since its line was built throughto BufTalo. Probably no road between
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WHEELING it LAKE ERIE TEX-WHEELER. Engine-truck wheels, 28 inches diam-eter. Driving-axle journal, 8x8% inches. Engine-truck axle journal, 5x9^4inches. Boiler type, straight top. Boiler, working pressure, 160 pounds. Boiler, diameter first course, 60)/^ inchesoutside. Boiler, firebox length, 108 inches out-side. Boiler, firebox width, 33J4 inches. Boiler tubes, number, 242. Boiler tubes, diameter and length, 2inches diameter, 12 feet S inches long. Boiler, thickness of shell, 9-16 inch. Boiler, heating surface tubes, i,S73square feet. Boiler, heating surface firebox, 154square feet. Boiler, heating surface. Total, 1,727square feet. Boiler, grate surface, 25 feet. Slide valve, Richardson balanced. Slide-valve travel, sA inches. tering the station at reckless speed, revealsome curiosities of French railway rulesand methods of discipline. The driverwas sentenced to two months imprison-ment and the g^ard to pay a fine of 25francs, both sentences being subject to aFirst Offenders Act, acco

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