. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . emont, 111., did noble work in savinga fast train during a terrific nightstorm. The heavy rains had flooded adistant bridge across which the trainusually passes at a high rate of Weimer made his way alonethrough the storm just in time to flagthe train, which makes no stop atLemont. When the train, which was Pennsylvania Tunnels at New York. Contracts for the only section of thePennsylvania Railroad tunnels not al-ready begun have been let. They are fcrbuilding the eastern portals an
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . emont, 111., did noble work in savinga fast train during a terrific nightstorm. The heavy rains had flooded adistant bridge across which the trainusually passes at a high rate of Weimer made his way alonethrough the storm just in time to flagthe train, which makes no stop atLemont. When the train, which was Pennsylvania Tunnels at New York. Contracts for the only section of thePennsylvania Railroad tunnels not al-ready begun have been let. They are fcrbuilding the eastern portals and the ap-proaches, where the trains will come outof the ground in Long Island City, anda short stretch of cut-and-cover tunneljust west of the portals. This is the be-ginning of the open air tunnel work onLong Island. The excavation necessaryfor the construction of Sunnyside yardwill be as great as that required for theterminal station in Manhattan. Under the East River itself about halfof the four iron-lined tunnels have beencompleted. Eight shields are beingpushed forward, four from each side of. P.\SSENGER C.\RS TWO \DES .\P;\RT IN TIME. the use of a pocket magnet. The mag-net, however, is of use only when thecasting or piece of metal cannot readilybe turned over or moved. Speaking of a clever magnetizing he saw in a shop, Mr. J. Stephens,writing in the Engineers Reineiv says:The other day I watched an erectingshop man setting up a new engine. Inorder that the outer bearing should notbind too tightly on the shoulder of the full of passengers, was held up. it wasfound that the water had loosened theties supporting the rails and later on,when the news was sent in, a wreck-ing crew was occupied a considerabletime in fastening down and strengthen-ing the structure before the train pro-ceeded to Peoria. The passengers felt aglow of thankful satisfaction when theyfound out how dangerous had been theirpredicament. July, 1907. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVF. ENGINEERING 319
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