. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . is worthy of is a curiosity now, and will be a greaterone a few years hence. Few shops have had a wider or moreextended experience with all branches ofengineering than this. The most notablework done here, perhaps, a work that islikely to leave the most lasting impresson the minds of our readers, was thebuilding of the first locomotive inAmerica for actual railroad service. Thisengine, named the Best Friend, wasbuilt here in 1830. and by her performanceon the road demonstrated that the st
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . is worthy of is a curiosity now, and will be a greaterone a few years hence. Few shops have had a wider or moreextended experience with all branches ofengineering than this. The most notablework done here, perhaps, a work that islikely to leave the most lasting impresson the minds of our readers, was thebuilding of the first locomotive inAmerica for actual railroad service. Thisengine, named the Best Friend, wasbuilt here in 1830. and by her performanceon the road demonstrated that the steamlocomotive was a success for haulingfreight and passengers. This engine isshown in our Graphic History of Loco-motives, on chart No. 2. Cooke Locomotive for Japan. The annexed engraving shows a double-ended tank locomotive, one of a groupbuilt by the Cooke Locomotive & Ma-chine Company, of Paterson. N. J., forthe Boso Railway, of Japan. The engrav-ing shows the general design of the en-gine so well that little description is neces-sary. The engine is built for a line with 3 feet. LOGGING LOCOMOTIVE IN A WASHINGTON FOREST. tubes, which give a heating surface of 783square feet. The firebox gives 75 squarefeet of heating surface, making a total of858 square feet. The grate area is feet. £ $ $ A Fifty-Cent Fizzle. The latest put-up-job collision of loco-motives occurred at Jamestown, N. a way which wasnt altogether satis-factory to the twenty-five hundred would-be spectators who planked down theirlittle fifty cents to see the show. A hugetent had been erected, and according to be conducted by Prof. Goss acting underthe direction of Mr. Geo. S. Morison,vice-president of the company. Fromthe peculiarity of the design of many partsof this engine, the results of the tests willbe awaited with much interest by railwaymen. As is doubtless well-known the engineis of the ten-wheel Columbia type. It isa four cylinder compound, each cylinderbeing independently connected t
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