. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . engineers measure curves aspart of a circle whose radius is es-tablished by the angle of deflection. Ifthe angle of deflection is 1 degree, theradius of the curve is 5,730 feet; 2 de-grees is half of that and so on. A 10-degree curve is part of a circle having573 feet radius. By memorizing theradius of a 10-degree curve any personcan readily make a mental calculation ofthe sharpness of any curve. Long Non-Stop Runs. The Great Northern Railway, of Eng-land, can boast of some remarkable non-sto
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . engineers measure curves aspart of a circle whose radius is es-tablished by the angle of deflection. Ifthe angle of deflection is 1 degree, theradius of the curve is 5,730 feet; 2 de-grees is half of that and so on. A 10-degree curve is part of a circle having573 feet radius. By memorizing theradius of a 10-degree curve any personcan readily make a mental calculation ofthe sharpness of any curve. Long Non-Stop Runs. The Great Northern Railway, of Eng-land, can boast of some remarkable non-stop runs. The longest of these is be-tween Wakefield and Kings Cross, adistance of 175^4 miles, a journey usuallyperformed in 190 minutes. The nextlongest non-stop run is Kings Cross toDoncaster, 156 miles in 169 minutes. February, 1916. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 39 New Railroad Safety Film Ready for Exhibition on the New York Central Lines The first exhibition of a new Safetyfilm, The House That Jack , wasproduced before a large number of lead-ing railway men and representative mem-. KKAR ) SCEXE, IN WHICH THREE C.^RS ARE TELESCOPED. bers of the press at a private performancein the Schuyler Theatre, New York, onJanuary 15. It consisted of what isknown as a three-reel feature Safety was written and adapted to picturesby Mr. Marcus A. Dow, general safetyagent of the New York Central Lines. Itwill be recalled that Mr. Dow produceda work along similar lines over a yearago, and the great success that attendedthat production, especially among the rail-road employees of many of the leadingrailroads, induced Mr. Dow to producesomething, if possible, still more worthyof their attention. In this second efforthe is eminently successful and the un-qualified approval of the critical observersof the first production is a guarantee ofits popular reception among the lessons tobe impressed in the minds of railway menin the growing propaganda of s
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