. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . arn the Chicago,Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Systempropose putting up locomotive buildingworks at Moline, III. We do not believethat railroad companies can build theirown locomotives as cheaply as they canbuy them, but it is very likely that theexperiment will again be attempted. riore Room for the Baldwin Locomo-tive Works. The Baldwin Locomotive Works arebadly crowded for want of room bybeing in the middle of the city of Phila-delphia. When a large building is putup it is often nece
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . arn the Chicago,Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Systempropose putting up locomotive buildingworks at Moline, III. We do not believethat railroad companies can build theirown locomotives as cheaply as they canbuy them, but it is very likely that theexperiment will again be attempted. riore Room for the Baldwin Locomo-tive Works. The Baldwin Locomotive Works arebadly crowded for want of room bybeing in the middle of the city of Phila-delphia. When a large building is putup it is often necessary to close streetspermanently, and the politicians of thecity find the proposal to close a streeta verv good -^iihieet on which tn ven- 150 niles an Hour. At Elizabeth, N. J., there is under con-struction an electric car which, it isstated, will make 150 miles an hour. A Mr. Zimmerman, in the interest ofthe Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Rail-road, is now at Elizabeth supervisingthe construction of the car, and he pre-dicts that it is only a short time untilthe twenty-hour Chicago train will b?. AN IDEAL INSPECTION CAR. engines wheels are equalized together,with three springs in all, the center onelying in a sort of box equalizer, com-posed of two side plates with blocksbolted in place to take the ends of thesprings. The cylinder is placed at thefire-box end of the engine, and the drypipe therefore comes out of the backsheet with tee-pipe above the fire door,and one branch pipe running down in acurve which just avoids the door. Across branch pipe supplies both steamchests. The valves are the ordinary Dslide, and they are actuated by indirectconnection in the usual way. The boiler is 40 in. in diameter, andhas 144 tubes, 5 ft. 6^-2 in. long, and thetotal heating surface is 360 sq. ft. Therigid wheel base is 6 ft. 2 in., while the-wheel base of the whole car is 28 ft. 3 driving wheels carry a weight of25,400 lbs., the engine truck lbs., while the car truck at
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