. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rom the auxiliary dome and passing inunder the ledge of the cab roof sup-plies the whistle with steam. Old-fashioned spring and lever safety valvesarc mounted on the auxiliary domecasting. The tank capacity is 1,811 U. S. gal-lons of water 1,000 of which are heldin the side tanks and the rest at thehark under the cnal receptacle. The The Sanitation of Passenger Cars. Present day conditions in modernrailroad sleeping cars have been madethe subject of study in the laboratoryof the Public Health
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rom the auxiliary dome and passing inunder the ledge of the cab roof sup-plies the whistle with steam. Old-fashioned spring and lever safety valvesarc mounted on the auxiliary domecasting. The tank capacity is 1,811 U. S. gal-lons of water 1,000 of which are heldin the side tanks and the rest at thehark under the cnal receptacle. The The Sanitation of Passenger Cars. Present day conditions in modernrailroad sleeping cars have been madethe subject of study in the laboratoryof the Public Health and Marine Hos-pital Service, and the authorities con-sider the wash-bowl arrangements incars and the open hopper closets tobe very unsanitary. The director of the laboratory, Sur-geon-General Wyman, has pointed outthe desirability of designing interiorswith smooth, plain, hard, surfaces,which do not give permanent lodgmentfor dust and which can be easily clean-ed. Plush, tapestries, drapery of allkinds should be banished from railwayservice as unnecessarily increasing therisk of harboring Imperial Govl Rys. of Japan. G.\UGE TANK ENGINE FOR J.\PAN. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Builders. tlanges. All the driving springs areunderhung but are not equalized to-gether. The boiler is 49 ins. diameter, andis of the flat top type made with twobarrel courses. The fire box is madeof copper and the tubes are are 192 of them and they areeach iJ4 ins. in diameter and 10 ft. 5^ins. long. The tubes are No. 12 B. at the fire box end and No. 14 gaugeat the smoke box. The heating surfaceis sq. ft. in all, of which the firebox contributes 93 and the tubes ft. Copper, bronze and steel staysare used, and there are through rodswhich unite the back sheet with theround head or front flue sheet. The engine has a compact appear-ance and the cab is roomy, considering coal space is 75 cu. ft. in all and the floor of the coal box slopes forward toward the firem
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