. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ROBBS MONUMENT. NAMED AFTER CONTRACTOR. panding (variable?) nozzles on locomo-tives, and lamenting the fact that ifrailroad companies put them on theirengines they would not be used. T istrue, and pity t is, t is true. Thereare many appliances placed on loco-. WATER TANK AT STONY CREEK. —very few—railroads have got a JimSkeevers engineer, and Old Calamityfor superintendent; the one to dare togive an idea, the other to put it inforce. If orders for the use of some newdevice were i
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ROBBS MONUMENT. NAMED AFTER CONTRACTOR. panding (variable?) nozzles on locomo-tives, and lamenting the fact that ifrailroad companies put them on theirengines they would not be used. T istrue, and pity t is, t is true. Thereare many appliances placed on loco-. WATER TANK AT STONY CREEK. —very few—railroads have got a JimSkeevers engineer, and Old Calamityfor superintendent; the one to dare togive an idea, the other to put it inforce. If orders for the use of some newdevice were issued in a form to appealto a mans feeling of pride, and notso mandatory as to be offensive, andthen a close and honest watch kept onthe carrying out of the order, andstrict justice given to each man in ac-cordance with his merits, results wouldcome, both surprising and pleasant. The writer took a Wootten fireboxengine, No. 885, on exhibition over sev-eral Western railroads. She wasequipped with a variable exhaust. Onthe division between Las Vegas andPecos none of the engines had it. Onthe first trip out I set the exhaust aboutmidway; it had a range of SV4 to 6l/2ins. I had a younger engineer to runthe engine. The engine was steamingfinely, and when we struck a heavygrade—grades and curves were allposted by signs—I stepped to right-hand side and opened exhau
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