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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Locomotives, 96 are heavy con-solidations; 52 of these have total weights of 192.000 lbs. andtractive efforts each of 44,100 lbs. The rated load for theheavy consolidations is 3.500 tons, the maximum ruling gradeof the system being 16 ft. to the mile, but they cannot al-ways be run fully loaded, as the maximum train length per-mitted is 80 cars. To handle this extremely heavy serviceover 350 engineers and about the same number of firemenare constantly employed. The road is double-tracked throughout its length and is four-tracked in many of the sections where the traffic is most dense.The entire system is fully protected by automatic electricblock signals. The entire equipment of the road is most com-plete and modern, and the effort made is to render the servicemore efficient and productive as the business increases, ratherthan congested and delayed in periods of heavy business. Thismost progressive policy is due to the efficient management of 396 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.
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November. 1903. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 897 Mr. J. M. Schoonmaker, vice-president and general manager,and the results of his progressive management tend to veritytne saying that the best is the cheapest In the end, inasmuchas the last annual report of the P. & L. K. indicated a grossearning last year of $54,000 per mile of track operated, asagainst the average earnings of $10,000 to $20,000 per mileupon other roads. These important features of this road arephenomenal and rare. The most important of the many improvements now underway upon the P. & L. B. is the new repair-shop Installation atMcKees Rocks, Pa., which is rapidly approaching completion.The larger buildings of the locomotive-repair department, in- of ground available has been utilized. The width of the tractwas limited by the main line on the east and other railroadproperty on the west, and the length is limited, but a mostconvenient arrangement of building has been worked out. The combined locomotive

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