. American engineer and railroad journal . stinghouse high-speed brake and also straight air, with shoes on all the , the equipment is very complete. In the followingtable the chief dimensions are presented: Observation room 9 by 12 ft. Total wheel base of engiiie 21 ft. 8 Ins. Driver wheel base 93 ins. Total wheel base, including tender 42 ft. 11 ins. Cylinders 16 by 22 ins. Drivers 60 ins. Weight on drivers 50,000 lbs. Total weight 78,000 lbs. Boiler pressure 130 lbs. Diameter of boiler 50 ins. Total heating surface 1,048 sq. ft. Grate area 16 sq. ft. Robert C. Blackall died
. American engineer and railroad journal . stinghouse high-speed brake and also straight air, with shoes on all the , the equipment is very complete. In the followingtable the chief dimensions are presented: Observation room 9 by 12 ft. Total wheel base of engiiie 21 ft. 8 Ins. Driver wheel base 93 ins. Total wheel base, including tender 42 ft. 11 ins. Cylinders 16 by 22 ins. Drivers 60 ins. Weight on drivers 50,000 lbs. Total weight 78,000 lbs. Boiler pressure 130 lbs. Diameter of boiler 50 ins. Total heating surface 1,048 sq. ft. Grate area 16 sq. ft. Robert C. Blackall died suddenly at his home in Albany,August 31. He was a veteran of over fifty years service inmotive power work and one of the best-known members of therailroad mechanical associations. He was born in Albany in1831 and spent all of his years of railroad work in the neigh-borhood of his boyhood home. Mr. Blackall was a past presi-dent of the Master Mechanics Association and was honoredand respected by an unusually large circle of friends. Four. Lut UMUIU 1, .V .VLBASY RAILROAD. # years ago he was retired from active service on the Delaware& Hudson, where he had served as superintendent of motivepower for twenty-nine years. German papers report the discovery by a Frenchman namedMollard of a new metal called selium. The discovererclaims that selium will cost but one-twelfth as much as alumi-num and is lighter and stronger. It does not rust and istherefore suitable for use in shipbuilding, for the manufac-ture of pipes and for railroad construction. It is capable ofa fine polish, resembling nickel. Its density is 2,C and itshardness not quite that of iron, but greater than lead or power of resistance is said to be greater ..nan that of iron,but less than that of steel. Between the Ocean and the Lakes. A new edition of this interest-ing and famous History of the Erie Railroad, by EdwardHarold Mott. Size, ,10 x 12 ins., iW pages. A completenew index added. Price r
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