. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ironcar axle the metal of which will showin tensile strength from 48,000 to per square inch will stand success-fully the same fiber stress as steel to 85,000 lbs. tensile strength. The Canadian Railway Club had atreat at their last regular meeting heldin Montreal. Mr. A. A. Goodchild. .\u-ditor of Mechanical Accounts, read apaper on Railway Statistics, andclosed with a clever skit in verse, fromwhich we extract the following stanza:What is the weight on the driving wheels,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ironcar axle the metal of which will showin tensile strength from 48,000 to per square inch will stand success-fully the same fiber stress as steel to 85,000 lbs. tensile strength. The Canadian Railway Club had atreat at their last regular meeting heldin Montreal. Mr. A. A. Goodchild. .\u-ditor of Mechanical Accounts, read apaper on Railway Statistics, andclosed with a clever skit in verse, fromwhich we extract the following stanza:What is the weight on the driving wheels, what power goes up in the stack?How much sand is used on the rails, when theres slippery ice on the track?What pressure is on the air brakes, what resistance in the air?Was ever problem so abstruse—to make you tear your hair? At a recent meeting of the New Eng-land Railroad Club an able paper onTerminal Car Cleaning was read by^Ir. Edward F. Bigelow. A suggestionwas warmly approved that the work ofcar cleaning should be superintended byan experienced painter. ALDON CAR and ENGINE R^epl^^cers r. Sure, Safe and Quick Rerailin^A Wedge Without Moveable so as to Clear Brakes orSand Pipes. Rights and Lefts-Steel or Malleable Iron •. 5^ ALDON COMPANY H05 Monadnocie BlockCHICAGO, ILL. \ SKAT Best Hand Soap Kno\\Ti UNEXCELLED for takingthe SMUT and GREASEoff RAILROAD men. AGENTS WANTED An attractive offer awaitsthe first man in every townwho answers this SKAT MFG. CO. 791 Park St. Hartford, Conn. Flexible Spout Vertically in straightline. Also latest Improve-ment to Poage WaterColumns Ansriean Valve and Mitir Ginpanf CINCINNATI, OMIO. SINS rOX OATALO0UI- RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING February, 1906. LocomotiveiiiijghMnlliiffiisiilgerCam^^ All equipment rebuilt In our Chicago shops, and at Scrantorv. Pa., in the now Lackawanna Sho s All Kinds of Cars and Engines Ready for Immediate Delivery RELEASED BY • 000-60,000 LBS. CAPACITY REBUILT FLATS AND GON
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