. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . t a days work, but youliave to stop somewhere on a hard pulland switch to a coal mine for two or buy sectional cuts of all the parts of theWestinghouse brakes. They have realizedthat there is no use in trying to get aroundit any longer, and I am proud to say theyhave got down to business. How is this for an engine mile recordon a road like this?—100 miles to the pintof valve oil, 35 miles to the pint of engineoil and no pounds of coal to the mile;cost of engine mile i6j^ cents. Total num-ber
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . t a days work, but youliave to stop somewhere on a hard pulland switch to a coal mine for two or buy sectional cuts of all the parts of theWestinghouse brakes. They have realizedthat there is no use in trying to get aroundit any longer, and I am proud to say theyhave got down to business. How is this for an engine mile recordon a road like this?—100 miles to the pintof valve oil, 35 miles to the pint of engineoil and no pounds of coal to the mile;cost of engine mile i6j^ cents. Total num-ber of engines in service on this division,fifteen, all of them 20-inch cylinders, ex-cept three, and we have no long fast pas-senger runs to hold our general averageup. We have only one passenger run, andthat makes 213 miles per day, and out tenhours and burns 5 tons of coal. R. H. Bricgs, Jr., Shcmeld, Ala. M. M., N. A. Rv. The Vanderbilt Tank. I am very glad to see that Mr. Vander-bilt is still at work in a practical way. andfeel that he deserves credit for digginginto mechanics or anything TWO OF THE TRESTLES ON THE NORTHERN ALABAMA RAILROAD. Railroading in Alabama. As I have been a constant reader ofyour valuable paper for the past twelveyears and very seldom see anything fromthe boys in good old Alabama, I thought Ihad better put in her appearance or would forget there was such aplace. The road that I am now on iscalled the Northern Alabama, operatedby the Southern Railway. I suppose thiswill be the first time that a great manyold, up-to-date railroad men ever heard■of such a road as this; the reason forthat, of course, is because no one has evercared to undertake what I am now doing,as, you know, railroad men are always toobusy to do anything but what they arepaid to do, and for that reason this littleroad and many other interesting and in-structive articles have been omitted in yourcolumns. The Northern Alabama runs from Shef-field to a connecting poin
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