. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . bility has notyet been demonstrated. Mortgagesamounting to $55,000, on which no inter-est has been paid for several years, anda dilapidated equipment resembling a de-cayed barbed wire fence is all that isvisible to the naked eye. The eye of faith,of course, may be able to see that trialis better than triumph, just as hope isbetter than achievement. Fortune-Bearing the black sand found so profuselyon the sea coast of California and Oregonzircon is found, which is used in the man-ufactu
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . bility has notyet been demonstrated. Mortgagesamounting to $55,000, on which no inter-est has been paid for several years, anda dilapidated equipment resembling a de-cayed barbed wire fence is all that isvisible to the naked eye. The eye of faith,of course, may be able to see that trialis better than triumph, just as hope isbetter than achievement. Fortune-Bearing the black sand found so profuselyon the sea coast of California and Oregonzircon is found, which is used in the man-ufacture of the incandescent cylinders forthe Nernst glow light. Among otherminerals they contain are columbite, ol-ivine and garnet, not to mention magneticiion ore in large quantities. This ironis being substituted for carbon in thesticks of arc lights, burning one hundredand fifty hours, instead of a single is destined to be used on an enormousscale for the manufacture of steel by elec-tiic smelting processes in the West, wherefuel is costly and electricity derivablefrom water power is EIGHT-WHEEL SWITCHERS FOR THE CHICAGO & WESTERN INDIANA R. Locomotive and Machine Co., Builders. Heavy traffic is taxing the motive powerof the Reading and the need of moreengines is very great. Coal movementsfrom the West are very heavy, and muchgeneral freight is being received fromXew York State. Tractive effort, 43,290 lbs. Weight on drivers, 201,000 lbs. Weight engine and tender, 342,500 lbs. Wheel base.—Driving, 15 ft. 6 ins.;engine and tender, 51 ft. 4 ins. Diameter drivers, 57 ins., all flanged5!/i ins. wide; main driving axles, 10 13 ins.; others, 9Vz ins. x 13 ins. Cylinders, simple, 24 ins. x 28 ins. Valve gear, Stephenson. Steam pressure, 180 lbs. Boiler type, extended wagontop, widefire-box. Boiler.—Diam. smallest ring, 74j^ ins.;diam. at wagontop, 8054 ins- Heating surface.—Fire-box, ; tubes, 2, sq. ft.; total, 2, ft. Grate
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