. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Engine Truck Wheels—Diameter, 30 ins.; jour-nals, 5 ins. Nathan triple bulls-eye automatic sight-feedlubi i Among the Railroad James Kennedy. AT COLLINWOOD. Collinwood is a beautiful suburb ofCleveland, Ohio, and the central shopsof the Lake Shore and Michigan South-ern Railroad are situated there in a finelocation. The shops are elegantly con-structed and are divided into squares re-sembling a miniature city. There is a\.i-iirss about the interior and a new-ness about everything
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Engine Truck Wheels—Diameter, 30 ins.; jour-nals, 5 ins. Nathan triple bulls-eye automatic sight-feedlubi i Among the Railroad James Kennedy. AT COLLINWOOD. Collinwood is a beautiful suburb ofCleveland, Ohio, and the central shopsof the Lake Shore and Michigan South-ern Railroad are situated there in a finelocation. The shops are elegantly con-structed and are divided into squares re-sembling a miniature city. There is a\.i-iirss about the interior and a new-ness about everything that gives one theimpressicn that a great mechanical ex-hibition is expected to do. There is something spectacular about the splendid loco-motives that come out of the great works,and while they do not have the gaudyglitter of the burnished curiosities offorty years ago, their very sombreness ofcolor seems to add to their perfect sym-metry and is becoming to their greatstrength. The Walschaerts valve gear is exten-sively used on their fast passenger aswell as on the freight engines. The offi-. Motor car sen ice lias been inauguratedon the Union Pacific between GrandIsland, Neb., and Ord. This takes theplace of a passenger train which has beenoperated between these points for about20 years. This is the fourth district ofthe TJ. P. in Nebraska on which motorcars are in regular service. ■\.\ KK HAULED li\ A VAUCLAINCOMPOUND. cials express themselves as well pleasedwith the efficiency of the engines in strvice, the comparatively small cost of re-pairs to valve gear parts between theperiods of general repairing being amarked feature since the introduction ofthe new gearing. In the shops there were evidenceseverywhere of the highest engineeringskill, especially in the moving and con-veying of heavy material. The ordinarytraveling cranes were relieved by anextended system of jib cranes servinga wide circle of machines. This fea-ture is being constantly added to andfacilitates the
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