. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a maximumtravel of 6 inches; the outside lap is IAinches. Steam ports are 18 x 1^, and ex-haust port 18x3 inches. Theboiler is of theextended wagon top type, 52 inches diam-eter at the first ring, and built to stand aworking pressure of 250 pounds to the looked or ignored. This is, the conniv-ance or aid which some railroads givescalpers, eitlier openly or otherwise, andas long as this is continued, there can belittle done toward abating the rate-cuttingwhich this entails. This was particularlytrue of th
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . a maximumtravel of 6 inches; the outside lap is IAinches. Steam ports are 18 x 1^, and ex-haust port 18x3 inches. Theboiler is of theextended wagon top type, 52 inches diam-eter at the first ring, and built to stand aworking pressure of 250 pounds to the looked or ignored. This is, the conniv-ance or aid which some railroads givescalpers, eitlier openly or otherwise, andas long as this is continued, there can belittle done toward abating the rate-cuttingwhich this entails. This was particularlytrue of the Worlds Fair year, and is stilltrue in some cases. A friend went to the Boston ticket officeof one of the largest railroads in NewEngland, and inquired the fare to Chi-cago and return by a circuitous rate of fare was given, but there wererestrictions as to route and dates. Hethen crossed the street to a brokers, andwas informed that they would furnish himwith the ticket he desired, without anyof the restrictions the railroad had named,and for about $8 less fare. He wanted a. Li.) MIR IUIiDUB UNIVEKSITY. cently built by the Schenectady Loco-motive Works for the university named,and shown in the annexed engravings. In general appearance, the engine doesnot differ much from an ordinary eight-wheel engine, but it has numerous pe-culiarities which will render it a mostvaluable machine for making tests todemonstrate the value of certain cylinderproportions and conditions of most radical difference from otherlocomotives is in the cylinders, which canbe changed in size, and it has a saddle ar-rangement by which the engine can bereadily converted into a compound bychanging one cylinder. The intention of the builders appearsto have been to make a model engine, sofar as design and material are concerned,and they have used the best of may be a significant indication of com-ing events that nickel steel is largely used square i
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