. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . acific andChicago & Northwestern into harmoniousrelations. So far as we can learn, the 326 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING July, 1901. different railroads in this compact will bemanaged independently. This movement towards great combina-tions of railroad interests was forced uponthe owners of railroad property throughthe refusal of politicians to legalize thepractice of pooling, which was the old waythat railroads had of preventing ruinouscompetition. The average vermin politi-cian could s
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . acific andChicago & Northwestern into harmoniousrelations. So far as we can learn, the 326 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING July, 1901. different railroads in this compact will bemanaged independently. This movement towards great combina-tions of railroad interests was forced uponthe owners of railroad property throughthe refusal of politicians to legalize thepractice of pooling, which was the old waythat railroads had of preventing ruinouscompetition. The average vermin politi-cian could see nothing but benefit to thecommunity at large when railroad compa-nies engaged in cut-throat operations andin this they misrepresented the sentimentsof the people. They were able to makea little cheap capital out of their opposi-tion to railroads; now the railroads havegot beyond their reach. We expect that atnext session of Congress the rabid oneswill get frequently upon their hind legsand howl. A Track Barrow; The man at the wheel, as shown by thecut. is able to push alons a rpilvvav track. WHEEL-E.\KlvO\V. the trackbarrow, while he himself walksby the side of the rail. It is an ingeniousadaptation of the wheelbarrow to railwaypurposes, and the wonder is that some per-son has never thought of it before. By theuse of this barrow ballast and dirt may behandled upon a rail in the place of apush-car, and much easier and with heav-ier loads than the ordinary barrow wouldcarry on level ground, and will run any-where upon the earth just as the ordinarywheelbarrow. It will be found a usefultool, and is the invention of Edward , of Lowell, Mass. Ventilating the Elkhorn Tunnel. The Railroad Gazette recently had aninteresting article upon the ventilation ofElkhorn Tunnel by Mr. Charles , engineer M. & W. of the Norfolk &Western Railway, from which the follow-ing abstract is made: The tunnel is about 3,000 feet long witha grade of per cent. In hauling ove
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