. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . last four years. Ourfirst locomotives of twenty years ago arebecoming obsolete. In my opinion weshall never be quite up-to-date with gov-ernment-owned railways—too much influ-ence brought to bear on the heads ofdepartments. You see the muddlers geton better, in some cases, than those whoshow a little ability. Hence they becomecareless. X. Y. Z. Gladstone, Queensland. Cant Lose This : Owing to the fact that there are stilla number of locomotives in service,not having oil cups forged
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . last four years. Ourfirst locomotives of twenty years ago arebecoming obsolete. In my opinion weshall never be quite up-to-date with gov-ernment-owned railways—too much influ-ence brought to bear on the heads ofdepartments. You see the muddlers geton better, in some cases, than those whoshow a little ability. Hence they becomecareless. X. Y. Z. Gladstone, Queensland. Cant Lose This : Owing to the fact that there are stilla number of locomotives in service,not having oil cups forged on parallel-rods, the enclosed sketch of a combina-tion bushing set-screw and oil cup maybe of interest to some of your readerswho have had trouble from losing making the set-screw cup, materialabout 2>i or 3 ins. longer than usualis employed and turned out at one endfor the cup, the other end threaded tofit rod snugly so it is necessary to usea wrench all the way. An ordinarywood screw feeder and cap with ad-justing screw completes the arrangement. From the construction of the cup it. OIL CUP. is evident that the part screwed intothe rod is deeper than usual, and thefeed is regulated by the small valve atthe top of the oil way. The positionof the set-screw governs the lift of thevalve. Trouble from lost oil cups ceaseswith the use of this combination. A. , IV. Ia. Misplaced page 444 of our October numberappears a very interesting article on theRationale of Coal Economy, which iscredited to Mr. H. T. Bentley, assistantsuperintendent of motive power of theChicago & North Western regret to say that the credit in thiscase was misplaced and belonged to ourfriend, Mr. H. Bentley, road foremanof equipment of the Chicago, RockIsland & Pacific Railway. Mr. HarryBentley writes with so profound knowl-edge of economy in the use of steamthat it is very unfair to deprive him ofcredit for a line of information that few engineers posse
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