. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . manregularly, and it is the usual custom tohave as many as can be convenientlyreached under charge of one man. Tail lamps, markers and classificationsignals are vastly more important thanthose on order boards, semaphores andswitches, and should receive the best ofcare and attention. If a station or switchsignal burns dimly or goes out, the ab-sence of a distinct light is a danger signal. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING A Portable Shop Derrick. In the Knoxville roundhouse of theSouthern Railway they have a portabl
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . manregularly, and it is the usual custom tohave as many as can be convenientlyreached under charge of one man. Tail lamps, markers and classificationsignals are vastly more important thanthose on order boards, semaphores andswitches, and should receive the best ofcare and attention. If a station or switchsignal burns dimly or goes out, the ab-sence of a distinct light is a danger signal. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING A Portable Shop Derrick. In the Knoxville roundhouse of theSouthern Railway they have a portablederrick which is intended principally forhandling steam-chest covers. It is mount-ed on four wheels, so it is easily movedfrom one part of the shop to another. Thepair of wheels under the frame of the der-rick are 14 inches in diameter, while theother pair are small enough to run in un-der the cylinder which on the cross com-pounds comes down very close to thefloor. There is no pawl and ratchet wheelto hold the weight suspended after raisingit, possibly because it was considered safer. March, 1900. freight engine. They were built at theLancaster works and were called by theirbuilder Brant engines. There was a greatrivalry among the boys as to who wouldget the new engines, as they were namedafter prominent men on the road. TheJames Means, the T. L. Jewett, and Ihave forgotten the other passenger en-gines name; but the freight engine wascalled Godfrey Heck, after an old Dutchmiller at lock i/- He wanted her calledafter his wife and offered $500 to haveher so named, but they would not put awomans name on an engine, although itwas always spoken of as she. Anyhow,the engineer did not have to buy anyclothing while he run her, as old Godfreysaw that he had a new suit Howard was her engineer, andwhen she whistled the whole Heck familyassembled on the doorstep to see her go by. It was currently reported and firmlybelieved that old man Heck gave severalevidences of
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