. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . l until it has norival. The year 1905 will see more and no railroad man can.•iftord to be without it.—Pueblo (Colo.)Opinion. The Railway Auto. The automobile has made its entryon steam railroads, and as long as itkeeps clear of regular and signal trains,it is likely to stay, principally i thecapacity of an inspection vehicle. Quitea number of these motor cars have beenintroduced on railways and on a spurline out in Utah a gasoline motor ofthis description has been used for pa
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . l until it has norival. The year 1905 will see more and no railroad man can.•iftord to be without it.—Pueblo (Colo.)Opinion. The Railway Auto. The automobile has made its entryon steam railroads, and as long as itkeeps clear of regular and signal trains,it is likely to stay, principally i thecapacity of an inspection vehicle. Quitea number of these motor cars have beenintroduced on railways and on a spurline out in Utah a gasoline motor ofthis description has been used for pas-senger service. Not long ago a light touring car wasused on the Great Northern for inspec-tion trips. Special wheels with flangescorresponding to those used in stand-ard railroad practice were used. Thetread of each wheel with the flange wasfaced with rubber. A new gasolinemotor car was tried not long ago onthe C, B. & Q. and proved to be acomplete success. It has rendered ex-cellent service on one of the smallerbranch lines in passenger and mail service. Steam motor coaches are familiar. VIEW OF THE P.\TTERN SHOP. objects on British railways and havebeen known there since 1893. On thecontinent, gasoline track automobileshave been employed in regular railwaywork for some time. For short tripsbetween a city station and a regularmain line junction where through trainsstop only a few minutes to pick uppassengers the railway auto ought tofill a long-felt want. January, 1905. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING General Correspondence. Locomotive Counterbalancing. The counterbalancing of an engine ap-pears to be one of those points aboutwhich shop men are very hazy, or elsethey look upon it as one of those theo-retical matters that only the mahoganydesk mon up in the office waste theirtime upon. Counterbalancing to a reasonably cor-rect degree, however, while the engineis undergoing repairs, is so easy andsimple, and the financial returns so great,that it .is only surprising tha
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