Identifier: railroaddigest1112carj (find matches)
Title: Railroad digest
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Car Journal Publishing Co
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : Car Journal Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ich formerly wouldnot have occurred. Of course, the risk to the men employedin haudUng trains of cars of mixed capacity and greatly vary-ing strength is much increased. This was a risk the employeewas not called upon to take in 1893, when the law was en-acted. The law can only reach its highest value and efficiencywhen all interested—the railroads, the employees and theCommission—are working to the common end of securingfrom its operation the greatest practical results. Tube Railways Projected in London. The great success of the Two-penny Tube, as the Cen-tral London Railway is generally called, has led to quite acrop of similar schemes being prepared for presentation toParliament. A table giving the number and mileage of theDeep-Tunnel Electric Railways within the metropolis showsthree open for traffic, four authorized and under construction,seven authorized and thirteen projected new. The total mile-age embraced in all these schemes amounts to 107. Vol. XI. No. I RAILROAD DIGEST
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European Express Locomotives By Frank C. Perkins. The tendency in both European and American design of ex-press locomotives is towards an increase in weight and size,au increase in heating surface and of steam pressure, the useof compound instead of single expansion and of coupled wheelsin place of single drivers. In the latest American practice verywide fire-boxes are being rapidly introduced, this being themost marked change in recent construction. It may be of interest to note one or two designs of expresslocomotives now in use on French, English and German rail-ways. The illustration. Fig. 1, shows a four-cylinder, four-coupled, compound locomotive for express service in Francedesigned and built under the direction of M. du Bousquet.Engineer-iu-Chief of the Chemin De Fer Du Nord. The en-gine is built on the lines of the De Glehn compound system bythe Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Jlechaniques at Bel-fort. The speed of passenger locomotives is regulated by thegovernments, abr

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