. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and no over time. Thus ifit takes eighteen hours to run 115 miles,only one days pay is allowed. A bonusof £5 is given if the drivers run a wholemonth without any mishaps, which, inordinary course of events, is rather im-probable. Enginemen must work hard toget £25 per month, which, considering thecost of living, the climate and countryone has to live in, is extremely small receive from £20 to £22 los. permonth. P. H. Stell\v.\gen. Johannesburg, S. A. R. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING January, 1899. Cu
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . and no over time. Thus ifit takes eighteen hours to run 115 miles,only one days pay is allowed. A bonusof £5 is given if the drivers run a wholemonth without any mishaps, which, inordinary course of events, is rather im-probable. Enginemen must work hard toget £25 per month, which, considering thecost of living, the climate and countryone has to live in, is extremely small receive from £20 to £22 los. permonth. P. H. Stell\v.\gen. Johannesburg, S. A. R. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING January, 1899. Curious Breakage of Crank Pins. Editors: Three main crank pins have been brokenoff of three engines, 19 x 24-inch peculiar part is that each pin wascracked opposite the main center, as theaccompanying cut shows. This will be agood subject for the readers of Locomo-tive Engineering to consider and answer,naming the cause for the break, which isshown in the shaded area. L. M. COOLTON. Eagle Grove, la. [Here is an opportunity to enlarge onthe numerous causes likely to produce. CURIOUS BREAKAGE OF CRANK PINS. fracture in a main pin. Our correspon-dent does not say what part of the pin wasaffected, but it is assumed to be near thehub, the point of greatest stress.—Ed.] Change Location of ClassificationLights. Editors: The classification lights usually locatedon the front end of an engine are <.ftea asource of danger, owing to the liability ofbeing extinguished in very strong windsand being obscured in heavy snow are often, also, hardly discernibleon account of the lamp smoking and cover-ing the glass on the inside with smokeand soot. It seems to me a much better place forthem would be in the upper forward cor-ner of the cab, as here they would havethe protection of the cab, would be con-venient for the engineman to light, andwhile in use, would act as continual re-minders to the engineer that he was carry-ing signals, thus lessening the liability ofhis fa
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