Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1897) (14758473351)

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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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slipping in all cases likely to be metwith. Hammered scrap is the practice for allheavy forgings at the Northwesternshops, Chicago. The cut off e ids fromthe car axle forgings are worked up intodriving axles, piston rods, crank pin<. andmain and side rods. used about the shop to bore cylinders withair as a motor. A rod connecting withan improvised crank on the fly wheel ofthe pump, and extending to a clamp onthe dry-pipe comprised about the cheap-est arrangement for producing a vibratoryaction on the job. that we have seen usedin that line of work. © i § Cast-iron guides and cast-iron cross-heads are doing harmonious and satis-factory work on the Minneapolis & St.Louis Railway. Narrow transverse stripsof soft metal are let into the wearing faceof the crosshead to the number of fouror five. Master Mechanic Tonge says hegets 150.000 miles of service to the 32dinch of wear, which makes it unnecessaryto touch these parts between shoppings ofthe engines. 740 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
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SCENES ON THE DAVOS-LANDQUART-THUSIS RAILROAD
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LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. ; ii The Highest Adhesive Railroad in Europe. BY SIMON LINDEN The Davos Landquart Thusis Railroad, the highesl adhi sia i lim in E ui opi (( is not a . -i) extensivi I i fai a length goes, being onlj 61 t miles all inall. and in the United States manj adin 11 railroads ha\ e been consti uctedat a mui h greater altitude; but, -nil. a il1 the largest thing of its kind in Europe, the readers ol I tiv I ngineering might care to know something about it. The line runs through .1 verj mountainous pari ol Ea tet n Svt il et land, and is ol 11.11 row i 1 meter) gage. It joins the tinental tandat d gage s> stem w ith I >a\..s. a small, but celebrated health resort1.11 lung patients, thai lie- at an altitude ol loo ft el .I..., 1 ih. sea level. lln line 1 ingli track, ami is laid outwith rails wi ■■ 0.4 pounds per yard. The sleeper? an ol w I. 1 m tin- Land quart- Da\ OS In ision, 1 he I.ami quart-Thusis being iron, and in the futureall relaying will be done w

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