. The locomotive engineer . makingthe castings. Where livesteam, at least100° thanthe exhaust, iscarried foralongdistance onlyseparalod fromit by a hnlf-inchwall of cast-iron. a splendid lontluclor, a great deal of heat must beabsiracled by Ihe cooli-r body and lost. This formof saddle costs very litHe more than the old style,and must result in a saving of heat—just the siimeas covering a sieam pipe does. To save making scpanilc drawings for dilfereutclasses of engines on iliis road, iwo wis of liguresUTV uscil, those enclosed in brackets ( ) being ii«edonly for cousolidationH. A Railro
. The locomotive engineer . makingthe castings. Where livesteam, at least100° thanthe exhaust, iscarried foralongdistance onlyseparalod fromit by a hnlf-inchwall of cast-iron. a splendid lontluclor, a great deal of heat must beabsiracled by Ihe cooli-r body and lost. This formof saddle costs very litHe more than the old style,and must result in a saving of heat—just the siimeas covering a sieam pipe does. To save making scpanilc drawings for dilfereutclasses of engines on iliis road, iwo wis of liguresUTV uscil, those enclosed in brackets ( ) being ii«edonly for cousolidationH. A Railroad WItb a History. During a recent viKit lo the South the writer hadtill- pleasure of riding over the line and visiting theshops of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. This little road runs from Chattanooga. Tenn.,to Atlanta, Ga., a distance of 138 miles; it has 44miles of sidings and hranehea, making in all 182miles; it is standard gauge, laid with 56 poundssteel rails. This roHil was built by the State nf Georgia in. Impro^ed Steam Pipes and PabsaOEb. for S. A. Alexander, of York. Pa., has a needition of his well-known Heady Refen-iic,Enginemen, out for 1890. It goes without sayiiig that it is belter than those that have preceded it—and there were no winged insects onthem. 1850 ; it was valued at |8,000,00(l in 1870. when itwnsleuiied for twentyyears to the prewnt roinpany,who give bonds for Ihe full value and pay ♦,00»a month into the Slale treaiiiry as rent. There arc some sixty locomotives about1,200 cars. During the war this rojid was one of tlie prin-cipal arteries of supplies lo the Confederacy, andmany of iW stations are hisUiric, as tlie stage onwhich many a liard foughl battle was won and lis northern terminus at the foot of Look-out Moutiiain it followsihe winding fhickamauga,whose waters have been red witli human blood,and runs ulmo<4t directly south to .\tlania, Ga.,passing through, on the way, Big Shanty. KcnesawMountain, Marietta
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