. Official proceedings . 94 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsbur^fh. and in the following cut is given a sectional view of the practiceof the present In the paper and discussion before the New York Club inNovember last, the points of advancement in the locomotive ap-parently emphasized were the change in details of the fire-box,increasing the length of the boiler, with longer tubes, applicationof piston valves and application of compound cylinders, or inother words, compounding the engines, and the published reportgives half tone illustrations of a number of locomotives built fordifferen
. Official proceedings . 94 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsbur^fh. and in the following cut is given a sectional view of the practiceof the present In the paper and discussion before the New York Club inNovember last, the points of advancement in the locomotive ap-parently emphasized were the change in details of the fire-box,increasing the length of the boiler, with longer tubes, applicationof piston valves and application of compound cylinders, or inother words, compounding the engines, and the published reportgives half tone illustrations of a number of locomotives built fordifferent roads, but the record does not show that there has been,after all, such advance in the locomotive since the early sixties asshown by two the preceeding illustrations as one might of the locomotives are somewhat different; parts larger andheavier, but the steam distribution is practical!}what it was forty3earsago. In this period the form of the valve has been changed,and at this time many are following the practice of some stationaryengine builders and adopting the piston valve to the locomotive, andwhich no doubt somewhat relieves t
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