. American engineer and railroad journal . nce. Belting should also be cleaned at regular intervals, andshould be softened with a small amount of belt-dressing whichis needed to keep it in perfect condition. A laborer can be quicklytrained to tighten and care for all the belts in the shop duringthe noon hours and on Saturday afternoons, and at other timeswhen the shop is not running.—Fred W. Taylor before the A. E. A General Freight Car Pool.—The Harriman freight carpool is not unlike those of the Pennsylvania and of the NewYork Central. When the principle is extended to the pooling ofcar
. American engineer and railroad journal . nce. Belting should also be cleaned at regular intervals, andshould be softened with a small amount of belt-dressing whichis needed to keep it in perfect condition. A laborer can be quicklytrained to tighten and care for all the belts in the shop duringthe noon hours and on Saturday afternoons, and at other timeswhen the shop is not running.—Fred W. Taylor before the A. E. A General Freight Car Pool.—The Harriman freight carpool is not unlike those of the Pennsylvania and of the NewYork Central. When the principle is extended to the pooling ofcar pools, the car efficiency and traffic of American railways willbe appreciably increased. The same methods that brought abouta reduction of 54,000,000 miles movement of empty cars on theHarriman Lines in two years after their inauguration wouldmake a proportionate reduction of 477,000,000 miles annually onthe railroads of the United States.—/. Kruttschnitt before theNew York Railroad Club. 268 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVE WITH PILLoID VALVE GEAR—CHICAGO AND ALTON RAILROAD. PACIFIC AND CONSOLIDATION TYPE LOCOMOTIVES. Chicago and Alton Railway. On page 399 of the October, 1908, issue of this journal ap-peared a very fully illustrated description of a design of Pacifictype locomotive, five of which were built by the Baldwin Loco-motive Works for the Chicago & Alton Railway. This designattracted much interested attention among motive power of-ficials because it incorporated an old style narrow firebox on avery large modern high speed locomotive. The length and widthof the firebox was 120MS x 40J4 in., giving a grate area of but33 sq. ft. The locomotive had 23 x 28 in. cylinders, 200 pressure and a heating surface of 3,927 sq. ft. The ratioof heating surfaci to grate area was 119; a very large propor-tion gauged by modern practice. It would seem that there is some doubt of the ability of theselocomotives to handle some of the hea
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