. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n of a famousrailroad president and was educated as acivil engineer as a preliminary training forrailroad management and followed thatprofession for about ten years. Then hebecame a general superintendent. From The later arrangement of the air cylin-der lowers the scoop; the air valve is thenplaced in mid-position, which connectsboth ends of the air cylinder to the ex-haust, so the scoop is free to rise if itstrikes any obstruction. Another move-ment of the air valve turns the air in toraise
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n of a famousrailroad president and was educated as acivil engineer as a preliminary training forrailroad management and followed thatprofession for about ten years. Then hebecame a general superintendent. From The later arrangement of the air cylin-der lowers the scoop; the air valve is thenplaced in mid-position, which connectsboth ends of the air cylinder to the ex-haust, so the scoop is free to rise if itstrikes any obstruction. Another move-ment of the air valve turns the air in toraise the scoop. Baldwin Compound for Pikes PeakRailway. The compound rack locomotive herewithshown is the latest product of the BaldwinLocomotive Works for the Manitou &Pikes Peak Railway. The engine is un-usually powerful for a locomotive of thiskind, weighing 62,455 pounds in workingorder, of which 44,155 pounds are on thedrivers. The cylinders are 10 and 15inches by 22 inch stroke. The boiler is 44inches diameter and carries a workingpressure of 180 pounds. As most of our readers know, the Mani-. BALDWIN COMPOUND FOR PIKes PEAK RAILWAY. that his progress upwards was quite rapid,until in 1890 he reached the position ofpresident of the East Tennessee, Virginia& Georgia. Then he became receiver ofthe Cincinnati, New Orleans & TexasPacific and of their railroad years ago he went to the Chicago &Alton as president. Although born witha gold spoon in his mouth, so to speak,Mr. Felton is made of the stock that turnout successful men. tou & Pikes Peak Railway is built onwhat is known as the Abt system of rackrail and climbs a grade of 25 per think this latest production of theBaldwin Locomotive Works is the heavi-est rack rail engine used anywhere. This engine, we are informed, has adevice for automatically applying thebrake, should speed become excessive indescending. At the test the engine wasstarted down alone and stopped itselfexactly as planned. Water Scoop Ope
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