Railway and Locomotive Engineering . as above would be 155,000 + ^ 39,990 + pounds. Tractive power = of adhesion weight to tractionpower = wliich-gives a coefficientof adhesion = •? February, 1916. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 41 At the North Shops, Springfield, Mo., on theSt. Louis and San Francisco Railroad The general increase in railroad traffic in the north to New Orleans and alongwhich is being experienced all over the the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to thecountry, together with here and tliere a Rio Grande in the south, with an inter- VIEW SHO
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . as above would be 155,000 + ^ 39,990 + pounds. Tractive power = of adhesion weight to tractionpower = wliich-gives a coefficientof adhesion = •? February, 1916. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 41 At the North Shops, Springfield, Mo., on theSt. Louis and San Francisco Railroad The general increase in railroad traffic in the north to New Orleans and alongwhich is being experienced all over the the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to thecountry, together with here and tliere a Rio Grande in the south, with an inter- VIEW SHOWING ROUXUBOUSE AND SHOPS OF THI-: ST. LOUIS .\.\l)SAN FRANCISO.) RAILWAY, SPRINGFHiLD, MO. limited increase in rates is having a marked vening network of branches passing cfifect in every department in railroad activ- through the richest portions of a dozen ity. The continued depression had a particu- of states, the prospects are now of the larly paralyzing efifect on portions of the brightest, and if tlie pn-cnl .^ctivity con-. \ iF .\LV(. lilXi: Sllnl. west and southw-est, witli the rouk that tinues, as it l)ids fair to do. the rapid de-during the last five or six years the ad- velopment of large portions of the dis-(litions to the mileage of many of the rail- tricts referred to cannot fail to be real-roads in those sections of the oiiuiilrv al- ized. K^ v*-^aJr««TTW» ^;^^^m - S^^-: TW - ifTJI i j -TWS ? ^^ ^^^^bF*!! 1^^—w*i^*ra»**^ -—; —-—^^?•- • . ^t^^ma^^^M . purcliased, controlled or operated, themost important next to the main line ofthe St. Louis and San Francisco Rail-road, that of the Chicago and EasternIllinois Railroad is the next largest, ex-tending as it does to 1,282 miles. The equipment has been maintained ata high degree of efficiency, and the im-provements have been continuous andlarge augmentations to the equipment willbe made in the near future. The prin-cipal repair shops are located at Spring-field. Mo., and since their origina
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