. The railroad and engineering journal . sketch shows a coupling between the locomotive and tender which has been adopted for the fast passenger engines of the Wurtemburg State Railroads. These locomotives are of a new design, and are compound engines of the Von Borries type. The illustrations, which are from the Organ fiir die Fort- schritte des Eisenbahnwesens, show in fig. I a section, and in fig. 2 a plan. The coupling is designed to give full play in all directions, at the same time making a close and secure connection. The link D is held by the two studs E E, which fit in the brackets //
. The railroad and engineering journal . sketch shows a coupling between the locomotive and tender which has been adopted for the fast passenger engines of the Wurtemburg State Railroads. These locomotives are of a new design, and are compound engines of the Von Borries type. The illustrations, which are from the Organ fiir die Fort- schritte des Eisenbahnwesens, show in fig. I a section, and in fig. 2 a plan. The coupling is designed to give full play in all directions, at the same time making a close and secure connection. The link D is held by the two studs E E, which fit in the brackets // bolted to the frame of ~ the tender, as shown. The forward end of the link Z> is a slotted yoke, in which is placed the block C, which is held in place by the horizontal pin B. The coupling-pin A passes through the block C and the drawhead. This drawhead is of cast iron, strengthened by a wrought-iron plate riveted on the lower side ; it is bolted to the heavy iron plate which connects the locomotive frames at the rear end. r^r^?m^. This coupling has been in use a year without perceptiblewear. The coupling-pin A is in. in diameter. Color-Blindness.—A railroad engine-driver, 40 years of age,was dismissed from his situation because he was unable tocorrectly distinguish colors. Dr. M. Reich, who examined theman, and who afterward published the results of his examina-tions in a Russian paper, found sight, focus, .nnd sensation oflight normal, and discovered no disease by the ophthalmo-scope, yet the patient could distinguish no colors when of adark shade, and only yellow and blue when of a light the help of a red glass he could distini uish the figures onTables II, III, VII, and VIII (Stilling). The patient as-sured Dr. Reich that he had been able to distinguish colors cor-rectly and with confidence up to the summer of 1889. He saidthat through over-exertion and insufficiency of sleep he had then 528 THE RAILROAD AND [November, 1891. suffered from violent head
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