. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ical posi-tion and putting the cylinders and mech-anism above the crank-sh;ift so thateverything was within reach and so thatthe power was applied directly where itwas wanted. The same thing has beenadopted in the mechanical motor. They eighty years on the steam engine and weare just beginning to do it about cars of the gasolene type, particu-larly, are rapidly reaching a point wherethe difficulties of operation are beingsolved more rapidly in the case of than the ste
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ical posi-tion and putting the cylinders and mech-anism above the crank-sh;ift so thateverything was within reach and so thatthe power was applied directly where itwas wanted. The same thing has beenadopted in the mechanical motor. They eighty years on the steam engine and weare just beginning to do it about cars of the gasolene type, particu-larly, are rapidly reaching a point wherethe difficulties of operation are beingsolved more rapidly in the case of than the steam car. Hardwood for California. The Pacific Coast will soon be thescene of an interesting tree growing ex-periment. The United States ForestService is planning to introduce a num-ber of the more important Eastern hard-woods into California, and will this yearexperiment with chestnut, liickory, bass-wood, red oak, and yellow poplar or tuliptrees. Small patches of these trees willbe planted near the forest rangers cabinson the national forests, and if these dowell larger plantations on a commercial. F.\SSE.\GER \E, ST. GOTIl.\RD , S\VITZERI„\.\1.). have put the cylinders up above andhave all the working parts preciselytlie same as the vertical inverted marineengine. .Another thing—they have avery good air starting ordinary automobile causes difficultyin starting, especially in cold weatherwhen the combustible is cold. This ar-rangement with the air pressure gives afew turns and I do not think there will beany difficulty at all with that machine instarting it in any weather or under anyconditions. I lliink, gentlemen, so far asthe branch lines are concerned, that arcoperated at a great expense with locomo-tives at the present time, that the gasoleneengine will give very satisfactory resultsin the near future, Mr. E. T. Dodds, of the Erie Railroad,spoke hopefully of the future of the mo-tor car, and contrasting it with the steamengine, said we
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