. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . forcollecting direct current, and these are con-trolled by buttons on the motor controller,as was stated. When not in use they areraised and are out of the way. There isalso a small direct current pantagraphtrolley mounted at the centre of the loco-motive, which collects current from theoverhead conductors on the New YorkCentrals tracks. There are two alternat-ing current pantagraph trolleys for col-lecting the electric power on the NewHaven system. These trolleys are builtof steel tubing, an
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . forcollecting direct current, and these are con-trolled by buttons on the motor controller,as was stated. When not in use they areraised and are out of the way. There isalso a small direct current pantagraphtrolley mounted at the centre of the loco-motive, which collects current from theoverhead conductors on the New YorkCentrals tracks. There are two alternat-ing current pantagraph trolleys for col-lecting the electric power on the NewHaven system. These trolleys are builtof steel tubing, and the collector is astrip of soft copper. The collecting de-vices are under control of the engineer. May, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 215 AMONG THE WESTERN RAILROAD MEN By James Kennedy In drawing some conclusions from abrief tour among the Western railwaymen it may be said that there are twoprominent features that strike a visitorfrom the East whose previous experienceor opportunities may have been of themost casual kind. The first is the pre-vailing degree of thoroughness of equip-. JAMES KENNEDY. ment which marked almost every sectionvisited. The passenger locomotives haveeverywhere the massive elegance andperfection of detail that one sees in thelarge marine engines of British manu-facture. This fine feature is enhanced bythe standardization of the one recalls the infinite variety ofdesigns that marked the locomotives ofthirty or forty years ago, and contrasttheir mechanical absurdities with thefinished and settled forms of our ownday, we cannot but think that we are notonly living in an age of progress, but weare also living in an age when thingsmechanical are taking shape as per-fect as the architecture of the ancientGreeks did in the days of Pericles. The other striking feature is equallyimportant. It manifests itself in the con-venience and elegance of the repairshops. Crystal palaces many of them are,with walls white as polished marble andfl
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