. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . I-ORMEK NEW YORK L PfFPEk. then pull the bar forward as a lever andIt will draw the gland back to its the bar to something handy with;he bell rope and you will have no moretrouble from that source. L. C. , Tex. Electric Road Takes to Steam. Editor: New Yorkers and especially the menwho ran the little engines on the elevatedrailway, may be interested in the enclosedphotographs of No. 169. She is at pres-ent running from Rosslyn to Great Falls,\a., and is doing rather interes
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . I-ORMEK NEW YORK L PfFPEk. then pull the bar forward as a lever andIt will draw the gland back to its the bar to something handy with;he bell rope and you will have no moretrouble from that source. L. C. , Tex. Electric Road Takes to Steam. Editor: New Yorkers and especially the menwho ran the little engines on the elevatedrailway, may be interested in the enclosedphotographs of No. 169. She is at pres-ent running from Rosslyn to Great Falls,\a., and is doing rather interesting fall an electric road was built tooperate from Georgetown, D. C, toGreat Falls, but almost as soon as openeddifficulty was experienced owing to thelack of power which made it a hard jobto get the cars over the grades. A shortwhile ago it was suggested that perhapssteam would run the road more success-fully, and accordingly the company pur-chased one of the Manhattan ElevatedR. Forney locomotives, No. 169, and. CREW OF ENGINE NO. i • two coaches, 46 and 152. These are sosatisfactory that the road has ordered an-other locomotive and two more cars. No. 169 is well kept up and looks ingood condition. The men all like herand say they would rather have her thanany electric car built. We thus have anelectric road converted, partially at least,into a steam railway. Hugh G. BotrrELL. Jlashington, D. C. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Julj, 1906. Cost of Setting : In the May issue of Railway and Lo-coMOTUE Engineering, I noticed an ar-ticle on tire removal and tire setting, do-ing a set of 6 tires for $, using gaso-line ; we do the same work for $, asfollows: Taking oS 6 tires—2 hrs. for i helper at 22I/2 cents. .45 hrs. for I helper at 15 cents, .accents. Putting on 6 tires—4 hrs. for i machinist at 35 cents. .$ hrs. for i helper at 22^/2 .9030 gallons of fuel oil at 2 cents per gallon 60 $3-65 M. McCoMAS, General Fore
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