. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . equals 6 tons. The following are some of the di-mensions: The cars are 30 ft. over body;breadth, 8 ft. ^ in.; height at center,8 ft. 10 ins.; and at side cornice, 7 ft.;height from rail at center. 12 ft. g]4 ins.,and at side cornice, II ft. The under- High Art. We recently read of a rich man whobought a very beautiful painting in whicha partly disabled but very picturesqueship was being towed away from a leeshore by a tugboat. The fury of windaand waves was strikingly depicted, andthe
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . equals 6 tons. The following are some of the di-mensions: The cars are 30 ft. over body;breadth, 8 ft. ^ in.; height at center,8 ft. 10 ins.; and at side cornice, 7 ft.;height from rail at center. 12 ft. g]4 ins.,and at side cornice, II ft. The under- High Art. We recently read of a rich man whobought a very beautiful painting in whicha partly disabled but very picturesqueship was being towed away from a leeshore by a tugboat. The fury of windaand waves was strikingly depicted, andthe smoke from the tug blended har-moniously with the general color schemeof the picture. The rich man, however, desired someexpert as well as artistic criticism ofhis purchase, so he invited an old seacaptain to come and look at it. The cap-tain looked at it for some time, butsaid nothing about the rolling breakersor the evident fury of the gale or even-about the harmonious smoke of the urged to speak, the captain,.strangely enough, altogether ignored th«work of the artist and did not even. CALEDONIAN RY. VAN FOR THE CARRIAGE OF AUTOMOBILES frame is 30 ft. long, giving 33 ft. 8 the buffers. The sole bars andcross members of the underframe are ofsteel channels, the longitudinals and di-agonals being of oak, secured by anglebar and plate knees. The wheels are45 ins. diameter and 9 ft. between cen-ters, giving a total wheel base of 18 ft. The vans have been built at the com-panys St. Rollox workshops to the de-signs and under the supervision of F. Mcintosh, locomotive superinten-dent. Silver Railway Passes. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, presidentof the Canadian Pacific, and Mr. C. , president of the Grand Trunk,have both been made the recipients ofcomplimentary passes on the Erie Rail-road. The passes are made of solidsilver. These rather singular passesare each in the form of a locket, andwere sent with the compliments ofPresident Underwood, of that line. a
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