. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lo-ton craneover driving wheel machines in machineshop. The 70 ft. transfc- table is onthe ground, but has not been turntable in round house is to belengthened out to 70 ft. instead of 65ft., as I had in my last letter. Roof isnow on the coach repair shop, and two65,000 gallons steel water tanks havebeen erected cast of round nouse, inwhich is now being laid creosoted blocksrun with tar for a floor. Besides thenew shops here, the company is build-ing a new steel double track bri


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lo-ton craneover driving wheel machines in machineshop. The 70 ft. transfc- table is onthe ground, but has not been turntable in round house is to belengthened out to 70 ft. instead of 65ft., as I had in my last letter. Roof isnow on the coach repair shop, and two65,000 gallons steel water tanks havebeen erected cast of round nouse, inwhich is now being laid creosoted blocksrun with tar for a floor. Besides thenew shops here, the company is build-ing a new steel double track bridge overthe river above Elysian Park, and alsopractically rebuilding the single trackbridge at the shops with a double trackone. This is all I can let you knowabout just now, but will keep you postedfrom time to time, and hope you willget this in time for the September H. V.\N M. E. panics if they would thoroughly test thevalve of long and short valve travel, M. E. Pittsburgh, Pa. An Injector Puzzle. .\ man learning to run a locomotiveought to practice thinking out the solu-. Keying Eccentrics Before ValvesWere Set. Forty years ago it was quite a ^omnioncustom in some locomotive shops to keythe eccentrics to the shaft before thewheels were put under the locomotive. The position of the eccentric bears a fixed relation to the position of the crank pin, and it is much easier to slot the shaft before the wheels were under, than later. To what extent is it now practiced? Some locomotives have eccentrics forged on the shaft. To turn them up false centers were made in the shaft. or in heads secured to the shaft. TAoricoNic. O J-WHEEI, .MINERAL WAGON. tion of any disorders about the enginethat are likely to happen and I send youa puzzle for firemen and young engi- The edition of filackalls AirBrake Catechism, which we havebeen selling at $ per copy,has been exhausted, and we are therefore not in a position to fill the many orders which havecome in for it. A n


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