. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SMOKE CONSUMING DEVII and a rod to actuate the valve in the other direction. Nothing is more disgraceful than thatan old man should have nothing to showto prove that he has lived long, except hisyears.—Seneca. VALVE-SETTING MACHINE. R. E. Wyllie and J. D. Twohig, Amar-illo, Texas, have patented a Valve-settingmachine, No. 894,995. The device em-braces a shaft, rollers adapted to engagethe driving wheels of a locomotivemounted on the shaft, bearings supportingthe shaft and means for vertically
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SMOKE CONSUMING DEVII and a rod to actuate the valve in the other direction. Nothing is more disgraceful than thatan old man should have nothing to showto prove that he has lived long, except hisyears.—Seneca. VALVE-SETTING MACHINE. R. E. Wyllie and J. D. Twohig, Amar-illo, Texas, have patented a Valve-settingmachine, No. 894,995. The device em-braces a shaft, rollers adapted to engagethe driving wheels of a locomotivemounted on the shaft, bearings supportingthe shaft and means for vertically adjust-ing the bearings and means for transmit-ting motion to the MACHINE FOR VALVE SETTING The Great Western Railway of Eng-land is said to be the scene of some new-records in fast locomotive running. Thedistance from London to Cornwall wasmade recently in 233 minutes, an averagespeed of miles per hour. Anotherspecial performance is claimed of a runof 247 miles in 227 minutes, an average of( miles per hour. It is generally notedti at runs of this kind are of a specialand spasmodic kind, and are not in anyway of benefit to railroad traffic. Recordsof locomotives running are of little or novalue unless the record is a continuousone, the same distance being covered inthe same time day after day. 446 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, [908. CONCERNING THE DERAILMENT OF TENDERS Cure for Tender-Truck J. F. Walsh, SUPERINTENDENT OF MOTIVE & OHIO RAILROAD. We have our own individual opinionas to the cause but as mechanicaldepartment people, whatever the causemay be, we are expected to find acure. I am th
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