. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Last spring the government decidedto purchase all the private railway com-panies lines with all their appurtenances,and the bill passed through the , no doubt, wish to see how itwould result. With respect to the total number of^ehicles and their hauling capacity andtheir weight, the following figures maybe of interest: Tlie total number of engines, car-riages and wagons amounted to, re-spectively, 5-242 and 24,408. Theaverage weight of the engine being (2,240 lbs
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Last spring the government decidedto purchase all the private railway com-panies lines with all their appurtenances,and the bill passed through the , no doubt, wish to see how itwould result. With respect to the total number of^ehicles and their hauling capacity andtheir weight, the following figures maybe of interest: Tlie total number of engines, car-riages and wagons amounted to, re-spectively, 5-242 and 24,408. Theaverage weight of the engine being (2,240 lbs.). These cars pos-sessed seating accommodations for 201,- 55S persons, an average of seats percar, while 24,408 goods wagons pos-sessed a freight capacity of 164,506 tons,being an average of tons per ratio of vehicles to mileage undertraffic was, according to the same sta-tistics, 35 locomotives, 128 passengercars and 520 wagons per 100 miles, M. Pneumatic Bell Ringer. Editor: The device, a sketch of which I sendyou, has been in successful operation on. PNEUMATIC BELL RINGER the Denver & Rio Grande for more thantwo years. It is not a patented device,so that if any of your readers desire tomake use of it they will find that it isall right. When pressure is admitted into inletport 7, Fig. I, the piston 2 will moveupward and the crank 12, with roller II,fastened to the bell yoke shaft, is movedfrom left to right. The piston will moveup until stopped by the outside diameterof the crank sleeve. During the upwardmovement of the piston the pin 10 reach-es the end of the slot 3, carrying thevalve 4 with it, thus closing the inletport 7, and opening exhaust port allows pressure under piston topass through ports 8-8 and out of port 9to the atmosphere. The weight of thebell will then move the crank with rollerfrom right to left, which when it reachesthe sloping disc or mushroom head ofpiston 2, moves the piston down, andwhile passing over
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