. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ious other parts that were consideredtoo good to throw away. suitableverted ir Ry. (Nickel Plate road) when our genial friend. Mr. MackcnKie. took hold, was a vcr>difficult andtrj-ing one. Asoriginally Duiiog a brief visit to th constructed, the road was built to sell, and of the Chicago. Milwaukee a ol. a^. ». - no or condition. West Milwaukee, we found a notable in,- « cleanmg up was ordered and then the plncc-d opon frnse furnishing the power, provement in the storing of i^r
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ious other parts that were consideredtoo good to throw away. suitableverted ir Ry. (Nickel Plate road) when our genial friend. Mr. MackcnKie. took hold, was a vcr>difficult andtrj-ing one. Asoriginally Duiiog a brief visit to th constructed, the road was built to sell, and of the Chicago. Milwaukee a ol. a^. ». - no or condition. West Milwaukee, we found a notable in,- « cleanmg up was ordered and then the plncc-d opon frnse furnishing the power, provement in the storing of i^rap which .s whole lot went to the scrap heap. ither than so many freight and so many J^.n worthy of imitation. The condition In the Milwaukee scrap cty. these passenger locomotives: and. as would „e the average s^rap heap is too weU paru and many others are placed m their naturally be expected, a great ing else under the bull-imer. The policy is toavoid using new material as long as scrapcan be utilized without too much workMr. J. N. Barr has taken a very practical expel itulated. Material for Driving Boxea. Central Rail-road Club a report, prepared by Mr. Ge.,W. West and Mr. S. Higgins, was pre-sented on The best construction andpractice in locomotive driving boxes, in-cluding a consideration of the comparativeeboxes compared withcast iron or cast steel with bronze lining. A decided sacd was taken against the u^tof bronze driving boxes, for the reasonsthat the first cost was greater, and great expansion of the metal whenheated causes it to stick readily in thL]aws of the frame. Besides these^objeL- gets worn there is apt to be a pinching journal which results in a hot box. One member bad got good results from cast-steel boxes having brass bearing gibs 1. The soft made sufficiently long i., Iriving wheel hub, then- ,enting the cutting that usually on- ■hen the hub rubs against a cast ihi- l( nnd moNt iippruved design, HOlliut all the power nowlookH wel
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