. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ail when the large portis closed, and the small one left allows the men to swing the bucketaround as it is slowly descending, so itgoes square into the cinder pit. Thebucket has a drop-bottom, in two sections. Improvement in Pennsylvanias JerseyCity Station. The Pennsylvania Railroad have hadrather hard luck with their Jersey Citystation, but the two fires there opened theway for improvements which are now be-ing made. In common with most terminal stations,the waiting-rooms and offices were at
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ail when the large portis closed, and the small one left allows the men to swing the bucketaround as it is slowly descending, so itgoes square into the cinder pit. Thebucket has a drop-bottom, in two sections. Improvement in Pennsylvanias JerseyCity Station. The Pennsylvania Railroad have hadrather hard luck with their Jersey Citystation, but the two fires there opened theway for improvements which are now be-ing made. In common with most terminal stations,the waiting-rooms and offices were at theend of the tracks, so that all passengersnnist pass through them from ferry totrains. This made a long walk from ferryto train, and was inconvenient in otherways. The present waiting-rooms are besidethe train shed, so that no one need gointo them unless they wish to buy tickets;and as most tickets are bought on theNew York side, this is a convenience forthe majority of passengers, as it is a muchshorter distance from ferry to train thanbefore. With the waiting-rooms at the side, the. ■^m 1:1c —a -- -I/lc - hocuttuttwc Enfftneeriiiy PISTON VALVE, FLINT & PERE MARQUETTE RAILROAD. And you are not so particular aboutthe note? sneered the conductor. Not now. Thats all right. Ive beenfiguring up and I find the note has beenoutlawed since I spoke to you last. —Railway Mail. Handling Ashes. At the Baltimore & Ohio SouthwesternRailway shops at Chillicothe, Ohio, Mas-ter Mechanic John Hair has installed anair hoisting arrangement, which does thiswork very speedily and economically. In the cinder pits are two large buckets,3^ feet deep, 314 feet wide and 8 feetlong, into which the ashes are dumped orraked from the ashpans of the are large enough to hold the ashesfrom two and sometimes more crane stands between the cinder-pittrack and the track for the cinder crane is operated by compressed to hoist the ashes and to swing it opening away f
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