. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . present time. We go as far as to use in our locomo-tives the New River smokeless coal, andreduce to the lowest minimum the annoy-ance of smoke and gases. i i i Observations made during a recent tripamong New England roads, tended toshow that steel was being largely used incar construction, especially in truck de-tails. Many truck bolsters of pressedsteel were found replacing the woodentype, both in repairs and new seems to be a disposition amongcar men to see what there is in theselighter and
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . present time. We go as far as to use in our locomo-tives the New River smokeless coal, andreduce to the lowest minimum the annoy-ance of smoke and gases. i i i Observations made during a recent tripamong New England roads, tended toshow that steel was being largely used incar construction, especially in truck de-tails. Many truck bolsters of pressedsteel were found replacing the woodentype, both in repairs and new seems to be a disposition amongcar men to see what there is in theselighter and stronger designs of truck bol-sters. It is certainly a wise move to tearaway from these relics of early days, andmake some intelligent effort to place thetruck construction on a plane of equalitywith the car body in point of excellence. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 393 Some Fitchburg Kinks. The Fitchburg Railroad car shops havemany useful tools and valuable appliancesfor doing work, not common to all shops,and new enough to be passed aroundamong those who know a good thingwhen they see AIR AT CAR WHEEL LATHE. Among them we find an air hoist at thecar-wheel lathe—a place where assistanceis needed fully as much as at any point inthe shop. Our illustration shows a lo- rolled over the hoist, the air is applied,and the piston raises the wheels to are then turned to the positionshown by dotted lines, which leaves themright to roll into the lathe. The air is operated at the hoist by meansof two small rods running from a two-waycock and passing up through the floor atthe side of the cylinder. These rods aremerely pressed by the foot—one to applythe air, and the other to release. are not shown. It is only necessary to compare this wayof handling wheels in and out of the lathewith the one in general use—where twomen are engaged, one of them handling alever with a block attachment, while theother does the persuasion act—to at onceappreciate the fine po
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