. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nce about one and one-thirdmiles apart. It will require five power 454 AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, igo5. -plants for charging the batteries, whichwill be located at RiitherlDrcl Junction, SufFern, Oxfordand Middletowp. The line to be pro-tected has two and four tracks at dif-ferent places and is the most congestedpart of the Erie system. Hitherto amanual block, which is a tower withsignals operated by a towerman. hasbeen used as a block protection, but ithas
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nce about one and one-thirdmiles apart. It will require five power 454 AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING October, igo5. -plants for charging the batteries, whichwill be located at RiitherlDrcl Junction, SufFern, Oxfordand Middletowp. The line to be pro-tected has two and four tracks at dif-ferent places and is the most congestedpart of the Erie system. Hitherto amanual block, which is a tower withsignals operated by a towerman. hasbeen used as a block protection, but ithas been deemed best to install an au-tomatic system for further protectionand to accelerate the movement of Pennsylvania division of the Delawareand Hudson Company will be tested. Educational Work. The railroad branch of the Y. M. at Topeka, Kansas, opened the edu-cational classes for the winter with anaddress by Governor Hoch on Thevalue of an Education. An excellentschedule is outlined for the comingyear. Lectures by practical railroadmen will form a leading feature. Among Pyi-onuter FlltiDff. FRONT END OF ERIE PASSENOER, SHOWING COLE ANDDIFFERENT TYPES OF MAIN VALVES USED. trains. The new system will be extend-ed over the entire line in the future. Testing Locomotives. The Delaware and Hudson RailroadCompany is now testing the speed andpulling capacity of all its locomotiveswith the aid of its improved dynometercar. While the capacity of locomotiveshas heretofore been determined by the-oretical measurements, the dynometerwill ascertain the same thing in a prac-tical way, giving results by which thecapacity of a locomotive will be closelygauged. Every locomotive on the the instructors in the various classesare several of the railroad are sixteen classes in all, beingan increase of four over that of lastyear. On the List. On one of the old turnpikes yet re-maining in the South, says MarinersWeekly, a big touring car had twicerushed through the gat
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