. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . n. PATENTED JANUARY 31ST, 1854. THE ATTENTION OF RAILROAD COMPANIES is respectfully invited to an examination of the merits of thisvaluable Invention, which offursto add largely totho safety of life and valuable features of this arrangoment ofejue arc, a saving of full fifty percent, in motive poweron crooked roads: the rails are pmticteil fr being destroyed by the flanges of the wheels coining in contact with them on tiic curves, as is the cue with the Mid i riiiid axle, which not only destroys the
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . n. PATENTED JANUARY 31ST, 1854. THE ATTENTION OF RAILROAD COMPANIES is respectfully invited to an examination of the merits of thisvaluable Invention, which offursto add largely totho safety of life and valuable features of this arrangoment ofejue arc, a saving of full fifty percent, in motive poweron crooked roads: the rails are pmticteil fr being destroyed by the flanges of the wheels coining in contact with them on tiic curves, as is the cue with the Mid i riiiid axle, which not only destroys the rail but puts a constant strain uponthe wheel and nvle, causing the wheel on the inner rail to trip or revolve upon the rail under the weight of the carand iti load, wink the opposite wheel Is traversing its greater distance; the tendency of which, is to wear thewheel Hat, and cause It, or the nvle, to break sooner or later. There is less danger or the car leaving the track fromIts having become spread. Axles lilted in this way do not require to be near so large, and yet contain
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