. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . high speed gear, used ingoing from place to place along the line,enables the car to travel from 12 to per hour without outside help. Several tanks are situated on the carwhich carry a small supply of oil suffi-cient for a days run on the air is used to force thegasoline to a series of burners situated atthe rear of the car and near the ground,and while the fraine mows down theweeds, it does not entirely destroy thegrowth, while the gasoline flame com-pletes the work.
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . high speed gear, used ingoing from place to place along the line,enables the car to travel from 12 to per hour without outside help. Several tanks are situated on the carwhich carry a small supply of oil suffi-cient for a days run on the air is used to force thegasoline to a series of burners situated atthe rear of the car and near the ground,and while the fraine mows down theweeds, it does not entirely destroy thegrowth, while the gasoline flame com-pletes the work. The frame-work supporting the burnersis divided into three sections, the centerone being about 5 ft. in width; the tworemaining adjustable wings are attachedo the center section and can be raisedin order to clear cattle guards, etc. Thismachine burns the weeds for a distance ofy/2 ft. on each side of the rails. Twenty to twenty-five miles per daycan be cleared by this weed burner, run-ning about from three to four miles perhour. Three men are required for theoperation of the car, it being run over. UNION G.\SOLINE WEED Its enough for a man to understandhis own business, and not to interferewith other peoples.—Christmas Carol. along the right-of-way. This machine isused very extensively on branch lines. The car which we show in our illustra-tion is made entirely of steel, mounted ona four-wheel truck, which is built in ac-cordance with standard railroad car is propelled •by means of a gaso-line engine placed at one end, which alsopumps air for distributing the gasoline inthe burners, and raising the side wingsof the burner frame. The engine isequipped with variable speed gears, the the road under train orders the same asa work train. Being forced to work, and forced todo your best, will breed in you tem-perance and self-control, diligence andstrength of will, cheerfulness and con-tent, and a hundred virtues which theidle never know.—Charles
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