. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . es are applied met with in service, from six to eightblows being sufificient in each case tobreak the axle. In fact, experience in thiscountry shows that few, if any, more axlesare broken in cold weather than in warm,and it is reasonable to assume that thegreater rigidity of the road bed in winterwould fully account for any greater per-centage of breakage in that season than insummer. Carefully kept records of axlesbroken or bent on one of the largest rail-road systems in this country show that nolarger
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . es are applied met with in service, from six to eightblows being sufificient in each case tobreak the axle. In fact, experience in thiscountry shows that few, if any, more axlesare broken in cold weather than in warm,and it is reasonable to assume that thegreater rigidity of the road bed in winterwould fully account for any greater per-centage of breakage in that season than insummer. Carefully kept records of axlesbroken or bent on one of the largest rail-road systems in this country show that nolarger number of axles failed in the coldermonths than in the warmer ones. Locomotive Engineering will giveits readers something new and usefulnext year in the shape of educationalcharts. There will be one each month,and they will be part of the paper itself,but every one of them will be worthy of aframe, and the whole will be a graphichistory of the locomotive from its incep-tion right up to December, 1897. We willbe ready with agents outfits about Octo-ber 20th. 850 LOCOMOTIVE Air Brake Items. Train crews would have to carry fewerchains if they were more careful in giv-ing signals to engineers to start and stop. There is no doubt that larger manholeson tenders would decrease shocks totrains at water tanks, for then a range ofeight to twelve feet in which to stopwould be had. An extensive series of examinations,made to procure reliable data on the sub-ject, prove that broken graduating pinsare now so rare that they may be said tohave practically disappeared. Secretary Kilroy states that there is noabatement in the heavy demand for theAir-Brake Mens Proceedings, and thatit is with difficulty that he can keep any-where near up with his orders. There seems to be a growing impres-sion among air-brake men that there isa greater necessity for enforcing the in-structions already given than for givingmore. It is not a question of how fullof air-brake knowledge a man can becram
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