. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . om experience that it is advisable todivide the tools into classes, making eachclass the subject of a catalogue. Anyone of these catalogues will be mailed onapplication to the companys No. 92 is itself an admirableexample of the manner in which a publi-cation of this kind should be tools illustrated are evolved fromdesigns made many years ago, and intheir present form embody all of the im-provements that time and experience hasproved advisable. Strength and sim-p
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . om experience that it is advisable todivide the tools into classes, making eachclass the subject of a catalogue. Anyone of these catalogues will be mailed onapplication to the companys No. 92 is itself an admirableexample of the manner in which a publi-cation of this kind should be tools illustrated are evolved fromdesigns made many years ago, and intheir present form embody all of the im-provements that time and experience hasproved advisable. Strength and sim-plicity are their outstanding growing popularity is the best proofof their superiority. Commonwealth Steel. The Commonwealth Steel Building, St. Louis, Mo., have is-sued a finely illustrated catalogue of 74pages, descriptive of their open hearthcast steel devices for railroads. Theseembrace underframes, platforms, end-frames, double body bolsters, needlebeams, end sills, trucks, truck bolsters,pilot beams, tender bumpers, engine andtender trucks, tender frames, driving. THE COMMONWEALTH SIX WHEELPASSENGER TRAIN TRUCK. wheels, and a variety of freight car de-vices, all of which represent the highestart of the foundryman, and the most ac-complished skill and experience ini icchanical design. The special steelMade by the Commonwealth company isuniversally acknowledged to be admirablyadapted for the strenuous kind of workfor which the devices are used, and havebecome the standard on a large nuni-1 er of the leading railroads. This is(Specially true of the Commonwealthtruck which is growing nunc and morein favor and has been selected fromamong many competitors for service undertie first-class trains all over one-piece tender frame has proved itself to be an important improvementin tender construction, combining as itdoes end sills, body bolsters, needlebeams and other parts into one strong,durable, simple casting that has stood thetest of the
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