. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . space isvery limited and the roundhouse is overforty years old. He hopes there willbe a new roundhouse and a new ma-chine shop when he again visits theWest. It may interest you to knowI he Missouri Pacific has preparedplans for the enlarging of the Atchi-son shops, work to begin early in thispring, and estimated to cost $100,000I am enclosing several snapshots otengines hauling trains in and out ofKansas City. The Frisco 4-6-0 is type, hauling fast express burns oil, has Wals
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . space isvery limited and the roundhouse is overforty years old. He hopes there willbe a new roundhouse and a new ma-chine shop when he again visits theWest. It may interest you to knowI he Missouri Pacific has preparedplans for the enlarging of the Atchi-son shops, work to begin early in thispring, and estimated to cost $100,000I am enclosing several snapshots otengines hauling trains in and out ofKansas City. The Frisco 4-6-0 is type, hauling fast express burns oil, has Walschaerts valvegear, wide firebox, and was built inigo8. The other 4-6-0 is a Katy en-gine, used on the Texas Mail and theKaty Flyer. The 2-8-0 engine is pull-ing a northbound Rock Island dragon a track just east of the Union De-pot train sheds. The depot is shown inthe background. Hoping to hear fromother friends of the Middle West and wishing your valuable magazine con-tinued success. Cl.\UDE V. Kansas City, Mo. Boring Rocker Boxes in a Lathe. Editor; I enclose herewith sketch of tools. OF THE K.\TV FLIEK. as made on the Kentwood & East-ern, at Kentwood, La., for boring outrocker boxes in the lathe, instead of do-ing the work in a boring machine. Thetools consist of one piece of cast orwrought iron A, thickness over K to be1/16 in. less than the thinnest locomo-tive frame, so that rocker boxes oflarger engines can be bored on sametool; they should be some 3 or 4 and 10 ins. long. Two sleeves orIjushings, D, of same length, to beplaced between A and the faceplate asat L, with 4-)4 ins. or 4J-^-in. belts, forfastening both .\ and rocker box. The rocker box after being boltedtogether is placed on A, and end B isset for boring; no attention is paid toend C, as it will follow in line. Thebox must, however, be forced against.\ at E; this will insure box to besquare when placed on frame after bor-
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