Identifier: railwaylocomotiv15newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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as unheededby the engineer. At the close of theday Conductor Ayres met the engineerwith the words: See here, Ive stood all the nonsenseIm going to. Just come out here, andIll give you a good licking. There was fire in his eye, and the en-gineer, noting it, turned mild at once. All right, he answered, amiably.Im willing to wrastle with ye, an ifye can throw me Ill notice any signal,if taint moren a bumblebees buzzin,pervided ye can harness him sos to buzzwhen ye want the train stopped. A wrestling match followed, in whichPappy laid the engineer low. Therope and stick worked to a charm afterthat, and soon led to the introduction ofthe now universal bell-and-cord systemof signaling. The apprentices and members of theEngineering Departments of the West-inghouse Electric and ManufacturingCompany have formed the Electric Club,with rooms in the Hamnett Building,Wilkinsburg, Pa. They start with about125 members, and every evidence of suc-cess. May, igo2. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE KNGINEERING 199
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New Frefjfht Rnjcine for the ChicagoGreat Western. The Brooks Works of the AmericanLocomotive Company have recently turnedout the first of the twenty of what theycall the Lake Shore type, but whichbears such a close relation to the Prairietype of the Burlington as to make a newtitle seem almost unnecessary. The betterway would probably be to designate bythe Whyte system as a 2-6-2, meaning 2truck wheels, 6 drivers and 2 trailers. They are very heavy engines of thetandem compound type, being built on thesame plan as those turned out by theSchenectady works for the Santa Fe, andwhich seems to be tandem compoundadopted by the American LocomotiveCompany. They burn Illinois and Iowabituminous coal and have a grate area of485 square feet. The leading dimensions follow •Type: Weight on reading wlieels 28,400 lbs , ■ di-i^ng xii-ao •• failing •• 30,100 •• o 191.700 ■• tender, loaded ijo.ooo General Dimensions : Wheel base, total of engine 29 feet driving u »• total engi

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