. American engineer and railroad journal . TEMPERATURE AND FRICTION OF BRAKE SHOES. -_^,^j^----:--4:44_ Fig. 4.—Details of Fig. 2.—Framing of Car. special care being taken to prevent drafts. A bridge for load-ing horses upon the cars is ingeniously arranged to be slungunder the car on top of the truss rods. It is obvious that thepaititions and cross bars may be kept at terminals, wherethey can be applied when necessary, but it is understood thatthey will be kept in the cars ready for use at any time. Plush-covered seats, intricate fret and grillework, carvedpanels, carpets and boxe
. American engineer and railroad journal . TEMPERATURE AND FRICTION OF BRAKE SHOES. -_^,^j^----:--4:44_ Fig. 4.—Details of Fig. 2.—Framing of Car. special care being taken to prevent drafts. A bridge for load-ing horses upon the cars is ingeniously arranged to be slungunder the car on top of the truss rods. It is obvious that thepaititions and cross bars may be kept at terminals, wherethey can be applied when necessary, but it is understood thatthey will be kept in the cars ready for use at any time. Plush-covered seats, intricate fret and grillework, carvedpanels, carpets and boxed heating pipes are to be excludedfrom all future passenger equipment of the Big Four andChesapeake & Ohio as a sanitary measure. Reviewing the exhibits of locomotives at the Paris Exposi-tion in the Engineering Magazine, Mr. Charles Rous-Martinmentions the following points which seem to him most sig-nificant: The enormous preponderance of the compound type of engineover the simple high-pressure type. The comparative scarcity of eccentricities in design. The immense increase in size and weight of locomotives sincethe last
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