. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ONE OF THE EARLY COPIES. eventually, and in October, 1891, the part-nership of Sinclair & Hill was formedand the Locomotive Engineer was pur-chased. The partners rented a very modestoffice in Temple Court Building, New January, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING York, and started out to force succt bjhard work. I he working force besidesthe partners consisted of a bookkeeper, astenographer and a boy. An advertisingagent was located in Chicago. The nameof the paper was changed to Locomot
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ONE OF THE EARLY COPIES. eventually, and in October, 1891, the part-nership of Sinclair & Hill was formedand the Locomotive Engineer was pur-chased. The partners rented a very modestoffice in Temple Court Building, New January, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING York, and started out to force succt bjhard work. I he working force besidesthe partners consisted of a bookkeeper, astenographer and a boy. An advertisingagent was located in Chicago. The nameof the paper was changed to LocomotiveEngineering, which indicated widerscope, and it was doubled in size and tin-price raised to two dollars a tirsi issue prepared by the com-. JAMES KENNEDY. bined partners appeared in January, contained articles from seven railroadofficials, among them W. S. Mellen, gen-eral manager of the Northern Pacific;John Player, superintendent of motivepower of the Atchison, Topeka & SantaFe; A. M. Woitt, general master carbuilder of the Lake Shore & MichiganSouthern ; and J. B. Barnes, superintend-ent of motive power of the Wabash. Theimproved and expanded form of thepaper made a wonderfully good impres-sion and the publishers were flooded withletters of congratulation from all classesof railroad men. The. success of the en-terprise was assured, and nothing morewas necessary than to keep the paper upto the initial standard. Both partnersworked upon the policy that every suc-ceeding number could be made a littlebetter than those -that had appeared be-fore. About the time the Locomotive Engi-neer was established, railroad managerswere beginning to demand that the trainmen should prepare themselves with suffi-cient prac
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