. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ht wedges may be set up. On thewhole, the average pound is not hard tolocate, if you only go at it right. Some of the Qreat Railroad Terminals. The number of tracks and tlieir mileageused in terminal stations, as well as thetrains handled per day, are always mat-ters of interest. The new South stationin Boston evidently heads the list withtwenty-eight tracks on the street leveland two loop tracks in subway for futureuse in handling suburban business. Thetracks have a total length of 15 miles
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ht wedges may be set up. On thewhole, the average pound is not hard tolocate, if you only go at it right. Some of the Qreat Railroad Terminals. The number of tracks and tlieir mileageused in terminal stations, as well as thetrains handled per day, are always mat-ters of interest. The new South stationin Boston evidently heads the list withtwenty-eight tracks on the street leveland two loop tracks in subway for futureuse in handling suburban business. Thetracks have a total length of 15 miles andcover 35 acres. The present winter sched-ule is 758 weekday trains in twenty-fourhours, and in the summer of 1901 this wasincreased to 775. The Grand Central Station of the NewYork Central Railroad in New ^ork hastwenty tracks in two train sheds, the lengthof tracks being given as miles. Theyhandle, on an average, 550 trains a day. The Broad Street Station of the Penn-sylvania Railroad in Philadelphia has six-teen tracks, with a total length of 2 miles653 feet. They are handling at present. LOW-PRESSURE PISTON OF ROGERS COMPOUND. 522 trains a day. In addition to this theyreport: Empty drafts placed in station forloaded out-bound movement, 370; emptydrafts moved from station from loadedin-bound movement, 407; empty engines(not including shifting engines) backedinto station for loaded out-bound trains,405; empty engines (not including shift-ing engines) backed out of station fromloaded in-bound trains, 435. This makesa grand total of car and engine movementof 2,139. Notes From Field Columbian Huseum. To those who are interested in locomo-tive engineering, who like to trace the de-velopment of that masterpiece of the me-chanical engineer—the locomotive, there isno exhibit equal to that of the Field Co-lumbian Museum at Chicago. Railroadposterity will rise up and call blessed theprojectors and finishers of the scheme thatpreserves to us those old landmarks in lo-comotive
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