. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . i stroke. The contractfor the steel hopper cars for this linewent to the Pressed Steel Car Co., Pitts-burg. With reference to the all-absorbingtopic of electricity versus steam for trac-tive purposes, the British House of Com-mons Committee which had under consid-eration the part-tube-part-surface schemeof,electric traction in the east of Londonknown as the City and North East Su-burban, after a somewhat protractedhearing, rejected the proposal on finan-cial grounds, much to the satisfaction
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . i stroke. The contractfor the steel hopper cars for this linewent to the Pressed Steel Car Co., Pitts-burg. With reference to the all-absorbingtopic of electricity versus steam for trac-tive purposes, the British House of Com-mons Committee which had under consid-eration the part-tube-part-surface schemeof,electric traction in the east of Londonknown as the City and North East Su-burban, after a somewhat protractedhearing, rejected the proposal on finan-cial grounds, much to the satisfaction ofthe Great Eastern Company, whose en- I^^H 1^ Si. FOUR-CYLINDER COMPOUND — DU will reach 330,000 lbs., inclusive of tender. Some very powerful six-coupled tanklocomotives with radial axles fore and afthave recently been supplied to the BerlinMetropolitan Railway by the BerlinLocomotive Works. These are of the2-6-2 class and have three H. P. cylinders—two placed outside the frames drivingthe second coupled axle and one insidethe frames driving the leading coupledaxle. The coupled wheels are 59 and the wheel base 29 ft. 6^ins. To supply live steam to three cylin-ders I9j4x24f^, a total heating surfaceof 1,667 sq. ft. is provided, which wouldseem to be but moderate provision forthe purpose. With about 16,000 lbs. ofwater and 5,600 lbs, of coal the engineweighs 175,000 lbs. About ten miles south of the Arcticcircle, from the harbor of Moigranen onthe Ranen Fjord, Norway, for 17 milesup the Dunderland River runs the 4 ^ in. gauge railway of the DunderlandIron Company, now nearing were placed last yea
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