. American engineer and railroad journal . lenoid acts to separate them and establish the arc. The mechanism is designed to use up almost theentire leDgth of the carbons and one set of them will last about eight hours. The cost for carbons is under two-tenths of a eentper hour. The improved light has been in use for over a year on the Wil-mington & Northern, the Plant system, the Vandalia and theBig Four roads, and on the Chesapeake & Ohio since November,1896. The light has proved to be very steady and satisfactory inevery respect. The cost of maintenance has been reduced to a re-markably low
. American engineer and railroad journal . lenoid acts to separate them and establish the arc. The mechanism is designed to use up almost theentire leDgth of the carbons and one set of them will last about eight hours. The cost for carbons is under two-tenths of a eentper hour. The improved light has been in use for over a year on the Wil-mington & Northern, the Plant system, the Vandalia and theBig Four roads, and on the Chesapeake & Ohio since November,1896. The light has proved to be very steady and satisfactory inevery respect. The cost of maintenance has been reduced to a re-markably low figure, and the first cost is only about one-half theprice at which the earlier headlights were quoted. Mr. Royal is President of the company; Mr. G. C. Pyle, Electrician,and Mr. Mark A. Ross, Sales Agent. The offices of the companyare in theMonadnock Block, Chicago, 111. The Symington Dust Guard. Mr. T. H. Symington, M. E-, Assistant Superintendent of the Rich-mond Locomotive Works, has had in service for some time past a. The Symington Dust Guard. dustguard of his own invention,and for which excellent results areclaimed. We show the dust guard in the accompanying illustra-tions. It consists of a piece of ,Vinch iron, backed by a similarlyshaped piece of felt. A ring of flexible vulcanized fiber is pressedagainst the plate by a spiral spring of ^-inch steel wire, which spring
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