. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng in his work in the columns ofthe supposedly mechanical the same old 1 In me of holding herdown on the magnetic principle. Thepaper says: The locomotive carried a small dyna-mo, which furnished the current, and suc-cessfully pulled up a freight train of forty-eight cars. The distance was covered inone-half the usual time, no more coal troducc live steam under the grates,whiCtl not only forms a blower, but pro-vides a small supply of water. This beingdecomposed furnishes the oxygen andhy
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng in his work in the columns ofthe supposedly mechanical the same old 1 In me of holding herdown on the magnetic principle. Thepaper says: The locomotive carried a small dyna-mo, which furnished the current, and suc-cessfully pulled up a freight train of forty-eight cars. The distance was covered inone-half the usual time, no more coal troducc live steam under the grates,whiCtl not only forms a blower, but pro-vides a small supply of water. This beingdecomposed furnishes the oxygen andhydrogen gases, which increase and as-sist the combustion of the half-burnedcoal, and add much to the furnace ordinary grates are used without diffi-culty. While a greater weight of sparksis required to obtain the same results aswith fresh coal, the balance remains infavor of the sparks. $ ii A novel proposition was made not longago to the receivers of the Baltimore &Ohio Railroad. The B. & O. has abranch running from what is known asAlexandria Junction, near Washington,. LOGGING IN WASHINGTON—ON THE WAY TO THE MILL. being used than ordinarily, and the pres-sure of steam being the same. This is akin to the Holman idea, in thatit is expected to get there in half the timewith the same coal and steam pressure,which means the same power. You cantfool Nature that way. § § $ Electricity on Steam Roads. Col. N. H. Heft, of the New Haven & Hartford road, read avery interesting paper on the uses of elec-tricity on roads now operated by steam,and referred to the Nantasket andNew Britain branches, which they haveequipped. The Nantasket branch, with the over-head trolley, is said to be much less satis-factory than the third-rail system in usefrom Hartford to New Britain. One interesting feature is the use ofsparks as fuel in the plant at sparks are obtained from the frontends of locomotives, which cost them but70 cents a ton, delivered. In order to burn these
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