. American engineer and railroad journal . AIR MINING LOCOMOIIVE. the catalogue issued by the firm shows a great variety of typesand classes of engines for general purposes and for specialvarieties of work. How great this variety is can hardly beappreciated without an inspec-tion of the catalogue itself. Among the different kinds ofengines illustrated are locomo-tives for passenger and freightservice on narrow-gauge andother light railroads ; motorsfor street railroad service ; en-gines for shifting and yard workon railroads and in factoryyards ; for coke ovens and blastfurnaces ;

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. American engineer and railroad journal . AIR MINING LOCOMOIIVE. the catalogue issued by the firm shows a great variety of typesand classes of engines for general purposes and for specialvarieties of work. How great this variety is can hardly beappreciated without an inspec-tion of the catalogue itself. Among the different kinds ofengines illustrated are locomo-tives for passenger and freightservice on narrow-gauge andother light railroads ; motorsfor street railroad service ; en-gines for shifting and yard workon railroads and in factoryyards ; for coke ovens and blastfurnaces ; for logging railroads ;for contractors temporary lines ;for plantation lines ; for movingblooms and ingots in steel worksand rolling mills ; and for anumber of other purposes, in-cluding underground work Inmines. As an illustration of the classof work engines of this kindmay be called upon to do, thecut given herewith shows a six-wheel engine on a logging rail-road, on the Pacific Coast, with a train of redwood logs. In this case the road

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