. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of thecompany to advance track improvementsand lo perfect the maintenance of way department rather than to encourage aspirit of false economy in running theheaviest kind of motive power and roll-ing stock over roads that may have beensufficiently stable to endure the traffic ofthe last century, but are hardly safe underthe growing demands of the present lay. The mechanical department, howi -has been kept in the front rank ofthorough equipment, the various shops iainc system has more recentlys
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of thecompany to advance track improvementsand lo perfect the maintenance of way department rather than to encourage aspirit of false economy in running theheaviest kind of motive power and roll-ing stock over roads that may have beensufficiently stable to endure the traffic ofthe last century, but are hardly safe underthe growing demands of the present lay. The mechanical department, howi -has been kept in the front rank ofthorough equipment, the various shops iainc system has more recentlyssfully established in the ex- nna iV Western Railroadat S. ranton, Ja., but we have not heardof the records of repairs having sed either in completeness of de- i brevity of time taken up in re- i d with the regular schedules in vogue at the Collinwood the history of the enterprisingrailroad company it may be statedbriefly that it was chartered August 16,1869. The proprietary roads were ac-quired from time to time by the con-solidated company, the original incor-poration consisting of the Michigan. VIEW OF THE LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILROAD AT SPRINGFIELD. FOUR-TRACK WATER TANKS. Mo., in the southern boundary and Buf-falo and Chicago in the northern ter-ritory with extensions covering thesouthern portions of the Michigan pen-insula. Of the single track mileage thereis not much more than 500 miles nowin operation, recent reports showing thatthere are of second track 614 miles, thirdtrack 3(50 miles, and fourth track nearly250 miles. Of sidings there are a totalof nearly miles, so that the totaltrack amounts to 4,280 miles. Tn the congested traffic districts thetrack improvements are being rapidly ex-tended, care being taken that the improve-ments are keeping pace with each other,the object lessons that are being given insome parts of the country showing clearlvthat the increase in the weight of mo- at the division points, especially at Col-linwood, Ohio,
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