. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd the drip upon the engineunder such a jack is troublesome. Transite Asbestos Smoke Jacks pos-sess durability, indestructibility and light-ness of construction. Transite is said tolast as long as the building itself, andit is absolutely fire, gas and weatherproof, and is unaffected by heat andcold. It weighs only one-fifth as muchas cast iron, and can be worked andhandled in the same manner as wood. The development of Transite AsbestosSmoke Jacks has passed the experimen-tal stage, and they
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd the drip upon the engineunder such a jack is troublesome. Transite Asbestos Smoke Jacks pos-sess durability, indestructibility and light-ness of construction. Transite is said tolast as long as the building itself, andit is absolutely fire, gas and weatherproof, and is unaffected by heat andcold. It weighs only one-fifth as muchas cast iron, and can be worked andhandled in the same manner as wood. The development of Transite AsbestosSmoke Jacks has passed the experimen-tal stage, and they have already beenadopted by many large railroads in thiscountry. Transite Asbestos Fireproof Lumber,from which the jacks are made, has alarge field of usefulness, not only in therailway industry, but in many other linesof construction. This material was originally designedfor fireproofing the flooring and for theinsulation of electrically propelled cars,and was first used by the InterboroughRapid Transit Company, of New York,both in their elevated and subwaycars. The lumber, as its name indicates,. Canadian inventors are not so thick acrop as in the United States, but wenotice that during 1905, among otherinventions, there were recorded at Ot-tawa two air brakes, three couplers,two cars, heating apparatus for freightcars, a hood and smoke pipe for round-houses, and a car and engine was also patented a mechanismfor controlling trains, on the principleof an electric circuit in combinationwith the air brake.
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