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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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getting to fuel stationsand to their trains. Mr. Underwood had heard so much re-crimination between the two departments,that it occurred to him that one responsi-ble head, competent to direct the repairsand care of engines, the swtching and Then you have no idea of what youwould do in the fracas? continued thepatriarch. No, I havent, replied the little man,sadly. With all you big heroes block-ing up the doors and windows in yourhurry to get out, I dont exactly knowwhat show a man of my size would have! And then there was a deep silence, sodeep you might have heard a cough drop,and the little man was troubled no moreabout the possibility of accidents.—Rail-way Herald. © © @ The Army and the Railway in England. It has been known for some time that aplan for an army railway council hasbeen under the consideration of the mili-tary and railway authorities, and the de-tails now given seem likely to give satis-faction. The Secretary of State for Warhas approved of the formation of a per-
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SHIELDS TEN-WHEELEIt. Mr. Shields, in writing about the en-gines, says that he received valuable as-sistance from Mr. James E. Sague, me-chanical engineer of the Schenectady Lo-comotive Works, in the designing of thelocomotives. A very conspicuous featureabout the engine is the large heating sur-face. The boiler, which is of carbonsteel, has a diameter of 62 inches at small-est ring. The firebox is 963-16 incheslong, 40^ inches wide. The front depthis 7554 inches, and the back depth 62J4inches. The boiler contains 320 flues, 2inches diameter, giving a heating surfaceof 2,i64.2i square feet. The firebox has53-3 square feet of heating surface, mak-ing the total heating surface of the boiler2.317.51 square feet. The engine is fitted with two No. 8Hancock inspirators: Dean sander; Goll-mar bell ringer, and Mcintosh blow-offcock, operated by air. The enginesare reported to be giving remark-ably good satisfaction in performingthe difficult train service they arc em-ployed upon. handling of

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