. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . railroad officials and enginemen wererealizing that a mans pocket is no placefor train orders, and that no man lives to-day who is not liable to forget or make amistake. A conductor tolled me up to the edge ofthe brink of a precipice and then pushedme ofT. I got up and found myself outof a job. I had to sacrifice my home tosharks, break asunder all social and familyties, board the hog train, and go to Mexicoand Central America to hunt a job, asthere was nothing to be found short ofthere. I set myself to
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . railroad officials and enginemen wererealizing that a mans pocket is no placefor train orders, and that no man lives to-day who is not liable to forget or make amistake. A conductor tolled me up to the edge ofthe brink of a precipice and then pushedme ofT. I got up and found myself outof a job. I had to sacrifice my home tosharks, break asunder all social and familyties, board the hog train, and go to Mexicoand Central America to hunt a job, asthere was nothing to be found short ofthere. I set myself to work to remedythe evil before I started, and give those I left behind with a job some protectionagainst losing it. On the board I use red peg to denotemeeting-point between two extras—thenumbers of regular trains opposite thestation where they are to meet. A whitepeg for the terminus of an extra. A pegwith red cross on black background forwait order. The two rows of numbers atbottom of board are schedule trains. Thenumbers of trains having right of track CALHOUMMAOICONTOU* - ^ CONWAYCBYSTAU BP»«« WC08ON 3R0OKHAVEN SOUPANBO0UE CHITTOJOHKSTONS 6UMKUT over train carrying board will only be leftin sight. A. W. , Miss. Tractive Power of Locomotives. I was rather interested in your remarksthis month about the tractive force form-ula in general use. It certainly, on theface of it, looks strangely inadequate; thereason of this thusness appearing, how-ever, on looking into the matter. It is oneof those things that get handed downfrom book to book without commentor explanation. Plenty of designers, tomy knowledge, use it without knowing orcaring how it was arrived at. It is simpleenough, but have never seen it given any-where: If li = diameter of cylinder in inches,D — diameter of drivers, / = pounds persquare inch mean effective pressure, andL = length of stroke (D and L to be in any and the s
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