. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . STRIP TO BE PLACED 60R1N& lO ALLOWFOR DRAW ON AIP-HCATI ON TO I N- tR INCHTHRO BOT OK EMEI^CENCV NUT. defective nut can be removed and the pipesleeve rebrazed. A number of these emergency nuts leftin the roundhouse office for instant accessare a positive safeguard against an en-gine failure from this source, as they areeasily applied by either machinist orengineer. nu-nts, were of other European nation-alities. It would not be much of asurprise, in view of recent events be-yond the Balkans, if the Turk wasdriven back to first principles and took
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . STRIP TO BE PLACED 60R1N& lO ALLOWFOR DRAW ON AIP-HCATI ON TO I N- tR INCHTHRO BOT OK EMEI^CENCV NUT. defective nut can be removed and the pipesleeve rebrazed. A number of these emergency nuts leftin the roundhouse office for instant accessare a positive safeguard against an en-gine failure from this source, as they areeasily applied by either machinist orengineer. nu-nts, were of other European nation-alities. It would not be much of asurprise, in view of recent events be-yond the Balkans, if the Turk wasdriven back to first principles and tookto the camel backs again. L. \ York-, N. Y. Rambles in Japan and China. Among travelers possessing the facultyof seeing things, a gift by no means com-mon, is Mr. Luis Jackson, IndustrialCommissioner of the Erie Railroad, who. COLUMN COMMEMORATING THE ES-TABLISHMENT OF TELEGRAPHIN TURKEY. has lately been traveling in Japan andChina. He has told the story of hiswanderings in a style that is particularlyinteresting to railroad men. Among otherthings he said: Japan and China are among the mostinteresting countries I have the exception of the North IslandI traveled through the principal parts ofJapan. They have 5,000 miles of rail-road in Japan. The gauge is 3 ft. 6 in.,mostly single track. The rails are 60 lb.,but they are now manufacturing 75 in the Japanese steel works. The gross earnings of the Japaneserailways are fifty-five per cent from pas-sengers, and forty-five per cent, fromfreight, as compared with twenty-fiveper cent, from passengers and seventy-five per cent from freight in the LnitedStates. Japan proper, that is, exclusive ofFormosa, Korea, and Saghalien, has anarea of about 150,000 square miles, witha population of about 51,000,000 United States, proper, exclusiv
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