. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to the passengerservice are fitted with train brakes, andthat out of a total of 9,956 locomotivesassigned to this service 5,105 are fittedwith automatic couplers, and carsout of a total of cars in the sameservice are also so fitted. A correspond-ing statement for freight equipment is asfollows: Out of a total of locomo-tives assigned to the freight service fitted with train brakes and withautomatic couplers, but out of a total ,826 cars assigned to the freight
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to the passengerservice are fitted with train brakes, andthat out of a total of 9,956 locomotivesassigned to this service 5,105 are fittedwith automatic couplers, and carsout of a total of cars in the sameservice are also so fitted. A correspond-ing statement for freight equipment is asfollows: Out of a total of locomo-tives assigned to the freight service fitted with train brakes and withautomatic couplers, but out of a total ,826 cars assigned to the freight ser-vice only 567,409 are fitted with trainbrakes and with automatic coup-lers. The number of switching locomo-tives fitted with train brakes was 3,877,and the number fitted with automaticcouplers was 1,199. Of the total numberof cars of all classes in service on June Schenectady Consolidation for Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. ^ n No. Tubes 310Diam. 2 Length li ft- Fii-ebox 120 x 103Grate 90 sti. ft. JI Firebox 3Cfi t;q, ft. Tubes 225« - Total 2501 ■• Steam ISO Weieht on Drivers—133,000 lbs, Tmuk 30,000 ■ Total Weiglit 153,000 Valve Tmvel >^ incbe.^ Driving Axle Truclc Axle Main Cmnk Pin _Lap % Enyint; Viu\in -S>^x 10 inches 0 X 10 ■ _6)ixC •• Lovomotive Enijinccriug transportation is not covered by reportsfiled with the Commission. An inspection of the summaries whicharc designed to show the density of equip-ment and the efficiency of its that during the year ending June 30,i8g8, the railways in the United Statesused 20 locomotives and 718 cars per 100miles of line. Referring to the countryat large, it appears that 50,328 passengerswere carried, and passenger-miles were accomplished per passengerlocomotive, and tons of freightwere carried, and ,498 ton-miles ac-complished per freight locomotive. Allof these items show an increase as com-pared with those of the previous year end-ing June 30. 1897. Incl
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