. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tended with importantadvantages in respect both of economy and life, and there are some kinds of steel-tired wheels that can be replaced with newtires almost indefinitely, so that their lifemay be almost called endless. The steel-tired truck wheel is now used exclusivelyon passenger trains on all trunk railroadsin New England. When first used inAmerica there were some misgivings that,owing to climatic conditions, when sub-jected to the strains of railroad work,they would break. This fear has
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tended with importantadvantages in respect both of economy and life, and there are some kinds of steel-tired wheels that can be replaced with newtires almost indefinitely, so that their lifemay be almost called endless. The steel-tired truck wheel is now used exclusivelyon passenger trains on all trunk railroadsin New England. When first used inAmerica there were some misgivings that,owing to climatic conditions, when sub-jected to the strains of railroad work,they would break. This fear has been dis-pelled by the production of better qualitiesof steel. Mr. Nathan Washburn, a well-knownwheelmaker in Worcester, Mass., manyyears ago, who is still alive, was really thepioneer promoter of the steeF-tired wheelon this continent. He established a plantat Hartford, Conn., and first made a 33-inch wheel consisting of a cast-iron centerand rolled-steel tire welded solid. Someof the tires were very hard, the carbonbeing often as high as .09, but later on reduced to .07. Soon other wheel-. B.\LDWIX .ATLANTIC TYPE FOR GERMANY. Prom BridaUCoach to Coal-Car. It was while traveling m Iberia in ylthat I saw on the railroad a coal car thathad once been a bridal coach. In thiswise: One fine day it had occurred to thesomnolent railway powers that it wouldbe a brilliant idea to have a gilt-decoratedbridal car for the use of newly marriedcouples willing to pay handsomely for tlieuse of one during their honeymoon tripsover the peninsula. --\ splendid idea, itwas thought, even outdoing the Wagnercars of America. So the bridal car wa~built. Now, it had not occurred to the officialsthat when honeymoon couples start last thing in the world they desire isthat anybody should know they have onlyiust been married. The result was, not asingle party chartered the car. So. aftera few months, it was shorn of its orna-ments, the panels of cupids and darts inthe bridal bedchamber were
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