. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . otive, condition of print, andall wording on same. Also, American Locomotives,by Emil Renter of Reading, Pa.,text and line drawings, issued se-rially about 1849. Also, several good daguerrotypesof locomotives of the daguerrotypeperiod. Address, HISTORICAL c/o Railway and Locomotive Engineering114 Liberty Street, New York. Rlll^SXiveEniineerin) A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXXVI 114 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1923 No, 5 Instruction Car on the Orlea
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . otive, condition of print, andall wording on same. Also, American Locomotives,by Emil Renter of Reading, Pa.,text and line drawings, issued se-rially about 1849. Also, several good daguerrotypesof locomotives of the daguerrotypeperiod. Address, HISTORICAL c/o Railway and Locomotive Engineering114 Liberty Street, New York. Rlll^SXiveEniineerin) A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXXVI 114 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1923 No, 5 Instruction Car on the Orleans Railway The First of Its Kind to Be Used in France An instruction car has been built for the Orleans Rail- SZyy ft. But, because of the high price asked by the rail-way of France that has a wider range of usefulness than way administration for such a car when the stock was putthe average car of the same character in this country, up for sale, that idea was abandoned, and one of thewhere it is for the most part devoted to the air brake or, American box cars carried im diamond trucks with a four-. interior of Instruction Car on the Orleans Railway Showing Model, With Tracks, Switches, Signals, Can Be Raised to the Car Celling at the most, to inchule a few points of locomotive opera- wheeled French freight car was fitted up instead, the tion such as the valve gear. The French car has the facili- latter to serve as a storage car and to provide sleeping ac- ties for g-eneral instruction in the air brake, valve motion, commodation for the instructor. The dimensions of the signals and other allied .subjects. Ixjx car that was thus converted into an instruction car are When the ef|uipment of the car was first contemplated as follows: it was the intention to utilize one of the coaches belonging- Surface of floor, 36 ft. by 7 ft. 10 in., making a floor to the American sanitary service, which had a leng1:h of area of a little more than 283 sq. ft. 136 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE
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