. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ished the big chimney at their DelrayWorks, near Detroit, Mich, It is 260 feethigh. 51 X47 feet at the base and 64 feetin circumference at the top where theflange begins. This smokestack contains 1,250,000bricks. If they were placed one on top ofanother, end to end, it is said that thecolumn would be 158 miles high. How-ever, the bricks do better service as achimney than as a special column one brickwide. Tlie ladder up the side is a series ofhoops, 2 feet apart, large enough so thata man going up is ins
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ished the big chimney at their DelrayWorks, near Detroit, Mich, It is 260 feethigh. 51 X47 feet at the base and 64 feetin circumference at the top where theflange begins. This smokestack contains 1,250,000bricks. If they were placed one on top ofanother, end to end, it is said that thecolumn would be 158 miles high. How-ever, the bricks do better service as achimney than as a special column one brickwide. Tlie ladder up the side is a series ofhoops, 2 feet apart, large enough so thata man going up is inside the hoops and canbe supported at any time on the way should be a safety precaution on sucha high climb. More Than a Million for Equipment. Few realize how much money the rail-roads of this country annually spend forequipment. The aggregate sum is anenormous one. The Santa Fe alone hasset aside more than a million dollars tospend for that purpose this fall. Two hundred thousand dollars repre-sents the cost to that road of 300 new bal-last and coal cars, of the so-called hop-.
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