. The locomotive engineer . work in the heavy snow, but itwould take a million dollars worth of tlicm to keepthat road open all the time during another suchblizzard. The JuU plow will never do anythinguntil the enormous overhang of the auger and hoodis cured; the Cyclone plow has done good work,but has developed some little defects that can becured. The principle on which it works b good, andits inventor has sense enough lo see that it is notperfect and is trying lo make it so, asking thepractical railroad men of the country to help plow is doing OS well as any of them, butis the
. The locomotive engineer . work in the heavy snow, but itwould take a million dollars worth of tlicm to keepthat road open all the time during another suchblizzard. The JuU plow will never do anythinguntil the enormous overhang of the auger and hoodis cured; the Cyclone plow has done good work,but has developed some little defects that can becured. The principle on which it works b good, andits inventor has sense enough lo see that it is notperfect and is trying lo make it so, asking thepractical railroad men of the country to help plow is doing OS well as any of them, butis the oldest, and has been changed a great deal tobring it up—iluring its first and second winter it wasu* faulty as any. The perfectly reliable and satis-faclory power plow for our Northern lines has notyel been built, and a fortilne awaits the buihier. Uepfirt on (oiiipoiind Locomotives. (Contiiiurtl frn ■ 128.) The Ht. Paul. MioDcapolis & Omaha road havean engine in their transfer yard at St. Paul withcylinders An Improved Tit^ IMnt^. The ilUittnilion on this page shows an imiimvedlie plate which has no projecting spurs iu the w(hhI,and which takes the thrust of the flange n|iiin allthe bolLs in Ilie plate instead of on the outside spikes;this w done through the medium of the press^-dshoulder on outside plate. This plate hasa long spikehole through the plate inside the rail; this hole is onan angle from the rail mid admits of the inside spikebeing driven tight against the rail, regardless ofvariation!* in mdth of rail. ThcM plrtlea prevent the rail from cutting into theties, and are of especial value in yards where lots ofheavy switching is done. On the Western andSouthern roads, where soft wood ties are in use,they ought to greatly prolong the life of lies. Forfurther information address C D. Halsey. AwtEng-r M. W., Pcnua. R. R., Jersey Oty. N. J,,who is president of the Shoulder Tic Plate Co. A specimen tire and axle has been added lo ourolRce museum by the Midvale
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