. The railroad and engineering journal . - f^lB HL-. FORNEYS FIRE-BOX DOOR-OPENER. will be the same. In fact, in the case of the marine en-gine, the compound or double-expansion engine has itselfgiven place to triple-expansion, and the quadruple expan-sion is already coming into use. This experience of the past may be instructive for theadversaries of the compound locomotives. We may findfurther instruction in the testimony of many distinguishedengineers, whose convictions are based on their own prac-tice, and who cannot be suspected of being subject to im-proper influences. M. de Borodine, wh
. The railroad and engineering journal . - f^lB HL-. FORNEYS FIRE-BOX DOOR-OPENER. will be the same. In fact, in the case of the marine en-gine, the compound or double-expansion engine has itselfgiven place to triple-expansion, and the quadruple expan-sion is already coming into use. This experience of the past may be instructive for theadversaries of the compound locomotives. We may findfurther instruction in the testimony of many distinguishedengineers, whose convictions are based on their own prac-tice, and who cannot be suspected of being subject to im-proper influences. M. de Borodine, whose name I havefrequently quoted, said, last year, in the InternationalRailroad Congress, that on the South-west Russian lines, We have a dozen compound locomotives in service forseveral years, and they have given such satisfactory re-sults that all those which we build in the future will be ofthis system. I believe that the next Exposition in Pariswill show more compound engines, and that no companywill exhibit any ordinary locomotive. Is not such
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