. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s of engine performancefor 1893, took haphazard ten simple en-gines running on same division in thesame service, and identical in all respects,save cylinders, to the compound, andmade a comparison, which he forwardedto Mr. Small, and it was most favorable 842 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. July, i8 to the compound. Since that date has continued the comparison,until he now has a five years duration of ser\ice test which ought tobe satisfactory to everybody. Below is a table giving the rel
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s of engine performancefor 1893, took haphazard ten simple en-gines running on same division in thesame service, and identical in all respects,save cylinders, to the compound, andmade a comparison, which he forwardedto Mr. Small, and it was most favorable 842 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. July, i8 to the compound. Since that date has continued the comparison,until he now has a five years duration of ser\ice test which ought tobe satisfactory to everybody. Below is a table giving the relative per-formance of ten of the compound and tenof the simple engines. The comparisonsare well worth studying: Average loSimpleEngines. Com- Gain PtrceLt Engine 210,874 Car miles 6,073,980 7,521,006 Repairs $5, $5, Repairs per en- gine mile $305 $ Tons of 12,194 11,706 Miles run to ton coal 14-36 25-4 Av. cars in train 37. I. Lbs. coal per en gine mile 139-25 Coal p. car mile. 3-II Collectins Aid for the Sick Soldiers. Mrs. Lang, the wife of Mr. V. B. Lang,master mechanic of the Cincinnati, NewOrleans & Pacific, at Chattanooga,Tenn., wrote to some friends at the Mas-ter Mechanics Convention that theDaughters of the Revolution, of whichslie is one, were striving to obtain fundsto supply the sick soldiers connected withthe camp at Chickamauga with the smallluxuries that are so much appreciated bythe sick. Mr. Robert Quayle, superin-tendent of motive power of the Chicago &Northwestern, and Mr. J. H. McConnell,superintendent of motive power of theUnion Pacific, undertook to make a col-lection, to aid the work in which is interested. They expected to beable to raise about $300, and proceededto dun all and sundry attending the con-vention for a contribution. When theyhad done their best, they found that theyhad collected $810. As the collectionswent on they got t
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