. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Henry L. Leach, of Boston, manufac-turer of the Leach sanding apparatus, re-ports a sale of forty-three sets for Decem-ber. Sanding by air jet, instead of by ahole, is a great step in advance ; even hardtimes cant keep down sales of a thingthat has so much intrinsic value. Die and He.\d—Tin-Shop Air Press. steel, there being no danger at all ofbreaking blow the ashes out of their pans. Fi,uE Cutter. with jets of steam directed from severalcross pipes toward the rear damper. All the engines have l
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Henry L. Leach, of Boston, manufac-turer of the Leach sanding apparatus, re-ports a sale of forty-three sets for Decem-ber. Sanding by air jet, instead of by ahole, is a great step in advance ; even hardtimes cant keep down sales of a thingthat has so much intrinsic value. Die and He.\d—Tin-Shop Air Press. steel, there being no danger at all ofbreaking blow the ashes out of their pans. Fi,uE Cutter. with jets of steam directed from severalcross pipes toward the rear damper. All the engines have large oil cups ontheir eccentrics—which is a good thing. I Fl-^.nger—Plan. Steamship heating is a new field for theemployment of electric heat, which hasattracted the attention of tlie ConsolidatedCar Heating Co., Albany, N. Y. Its regu-lar form of street-car heaters are, in themain, well adapted for steamship heating. ^ i i On the D., S. S. & A. the passengerbrakesmen are stationed at car platforms atall important stations, and require eachpassenger to show a ticket before enteringthe cars. It is said to prevent train robberies—the retail kind. ^ i ^ H. K. Porter & Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa.,builders of light locomotives, report havingenjoyed a larger patronage during 1894, inproportion to the capacity of their plant,than fell to the lot of anj- other manu-facturer of locomotives. Tin-Shop Air sketch. It is in the form of a heavyplow about 18 inches high
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