. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rs of improved steam, ammoniaand hydraulic packings. The factory andgeneral office is in Palmyra, N. Y. Thecatalogue has been beautifully printed andis well arranged and is altogether a verysatisfactory reference book to order page is devoted to just one name of the particular brand of pack-ing is printed in large clear type at thetop. Then comes an excellent half tonerepresentation of the packings, cut diag-onally at one place so as to reveal theinternal structure, at a g
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rs of improved steam, ammoniaand hydraulic packings. The factory andgeneral office is in Palmyra, N. Y. Thecatalogue has been beautifully printed andis well arranged and is altogether a verysatisfactory reference book to order page is devoted to just one name of the particular brand of pack-ing is printed in large clear type at thetop. Then comes an excellent half tonerepresentation of the packings, cut diag-onally at one place so as to reveal theinternal structure, at a glance. Its desig-nating number is given and a brief de-scription follows which tells what thepacking ring is suitable for, and howmade. The price per pound is placedconspicuously at the bottom of the catalogue has bfeen printed on spe-cially prepared paper and is a fine exam-ple of the art of catalogue making. TlieCrandall Company, which have offices inNew York, Chicago, Seattle, as well asPalmyra, will be happy to supply a copyof the catalogue to anyone interestedenough to ask for one. r. Practically every railroad yard in thePittsburgh district is to be enlarged earlynext spring, and in some cases the ca-pacity of the present yards will be doubled,as a result of the present congestion offreight. This will mean the expenditureof millions of dollars and will enable theinitial lines to handle many thousand addi-tional cars next year.—New York Com-mercial. FlC. 1. ELECTRIC PUMP HOUSE,L. S. & M. S. 10 arriUge j. float-operated switch to close the motor circuit so that the ex-pense of an attendant is eliminated andpumping can be done advantageously inan isolated locality. This is especiallytrue along railway lines where, if currentis available, an automatic electric pump-ing set may be installed to fill the watertanks for locomtives. A very succesful induction motor-driven pumping plant for this purpose isill operation on the Lake Shore and Mich-igan Southern at
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