Identifier: locomotiveengine10hill (find matches)
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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ailway.Oskaloosa, la. New England Inspection Engine. Editors: Your article about the inspector onthe Norfolk & Southern Railroad has spection room, which is finished in ma-hogany and maple. Comfortable willowchairs, cane-seated, together with plushcushions, are within the inspection room,upon tastefully carpeted platforms well ar-ranged for observation by being raisedwhere the boiler and the wagon-top riseabove the floor-level. Artificial light isobtained by electricity from storage bat-teries placed under the engineers seat,and the inspection room is supplied withheat from the boiler, the heat being regu-lated by means of registers. Communi-cation between the inspection room andthe cab is secured by speaking tubes andelectric bells. The bell, hung on the ten-der, is rung by compressed air. The design of the engine is artisticand tasteful. Its predominant color isdark olive-green, with ornamentation andlettering in gold-leaf, while the cylindercasings and handrails are of polished
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NEW ENGLAND INSPECTION ENGINE. suggested sending to you a photographof the inspection engine Boston, onthe Fitchburg Railroad, a machine thatwas likewise rebuilt from an eight-wheellocomotive. It was built at the Mason MachineWorks, and was formerly on the Ash-burnliam Railroad, 2.58 miles in length,till that road became a branch of theFitchburg system. The rebuilding wasdone by the Fitchburg Company at itslocomotive shops in Keene, N. H., andits car shops in Fitchburg, Mass. TheBoston has cylinders 12 x 22 inches, anda 38-inch boiler, while its weight, origi-nally 48,000 pounds, is now 77.700 pounds. The two rear windows on the side arein the cab. the other four being in the in- brass. Although similar to severalengines built originally for inspectionservice, the Boston is, I believe, thefirst and only one introduced into NewEngland. G. Franklin.Starbuck.Waltham, Mass. § § 3 Some Suggestions to Car Inspectors. Editors: With the more general use of air brakeson freight cars, the nec

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