. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Canadian inventors are not so thick acrop as in the United States, but wenotice that during 1905, among otherinventions, there were recorded at Ot-tawa two air brakes, three couplers,two cars, heating apparatus for freightcars, a hood and smoke pipe for round-houses, and a car and engine was also patented a mechanismfor controlling trains, on the principleof an electric circuit in combinationwith the air Fire and Acid Proof Jacks. The unsatisfactory results • obtainedfr


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Canadian inventors are not so thick acrop as in the United States, but wenotice that during 1905, among otherinventions, there were recorded at Ot-tawa two air brakes, three couplers,two cars, heating apparatus for freightcars, a hood and smoke pipe for round-houses, and a car and engine was also patented a mechanismfor controlling trains, on the principleof an electric circuit in combinationwith the air Fire and Acid Proof Jacks. The unsatisfactory results • obtainedfrom the use of metal and wood smokejacks for roundhouses has induced manyrailways to turn to asbestos as a more ROl-NHHOrSE i?MOKE JACK. is made of asbestos, varying m thick-ness from Ys in. to I in. and can be ob-tained in standard size sheets 40x40 42x48 in. Transite Asbestos Lumber Smoke Jacksare manufactured by the H. W. Johns-Manville Company, of New York, andthey have prepared a booklet on thesubject which will be sent free to thosewlio write to the company for a copy. Manufacturers of ELECTRIC,STEAM ANDHOT WATERAPPARATUS FOR RAILWAY CARS EDISONSTORAGEBATTERY FOR RAILWAY CARLIGHTING Catalogues and Circularscheerfully furnished Main Office, Whitehall Bldg. J 7 BATTERY PLACE NEW YORK March, iQofi. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING ■33 Homestead V ©elves straightway, Three-way and Four-way,and Homestead Locking Cocks Ar© Famous the World Over They cost more, but arc worth very imich morethan other makes.


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