. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s instead of 51, and the 15-ton key would now register 18 tons in-stead of 17, this in order to provide forthe additional drawbar-pull causes bydistance of car from the power. Theirregular face on the cam wheel is cutor adjusted under each key to controlihc numeral wheel and cause it to regis- Accuracy Desired. The Baker City (Ore.) Herald hasthe following news item, which showsa comniendable thirst for accurate rail-road information. It says: It was ru-mored yesterday tliat the O. R. &
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s instead of 51, and the 15-ton key would now register 18 tons in-stead of 17, this in order to provide forthe additional drawbar-pull causes bydistance of car from the power. Theirregular face on the cam wheel is cutor adjusted under each key to controlihc numeral wheel and cause it to regis- Accuracy Desired. The Baker City (Ore.) Herald hasthe following news item, which showsa comniendable thirst for accurate rail-road information. It says: It was ru-mored yesterday tliat the O. R. & going to put in three new tiesand a frog in the local switch the error of our ways in thepast on railroad news, we determinedto follow the example set by the onlyauthoritative railroad sheet in the State,and, accordingly, we telephoned Mr. OBrien, the Oregon boy, whom toknow is to love, and received the fol-lowing, which made us feel as if anannual pass wasnt so far off, after all:No truth in the rumor as to frog. Tiescorrect. There you are. LocomotiveBlow-Off Plug Valves. ri,ATE c. ter and record tlie drawbar-pull of anygross weight of car at each location ofcar in train, thereby making proper al-lowance to engine when heavy cars areplaced at the rear and light cars at thelicad end of train—in addition to auto-matically reducing the gross tons to<lrawbar-pull. Plate (C) represents end view show-ing at top the tonnage numeral wheels,and at the bottom the wheel which re-cords the total number of cars in trainand changes the position of cams atpre-determined intervals—every tenthor fifth car as desired. This machine is intended for use inthe office of the yard master where way-bills are kept, and the tonnage to becomputed on machine by the clerk—amachine to be placed at ends of alltiain districts and at important inter-mediate filling-out stations, in order tonot only adjust correctly the drawbar-pull of trains, but to take away fromthe trainmen the
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