. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sions aregiven below: The Imperial Military Railways. On July I last the railways of theTransvaal and the Orange River Colonypassed from the department of the armyin South Africa into the hands of thecivil government. The railways of thetwo colonies will continue to be workedtogether, but the name. ImperialMilitary Railways, has been changedto that of the Central South Afri-can Railways. For a time, how-ever, the system of modified military con-trol, says the Johannesburg Star, whichworked so
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sions aregiven below: The Imperial Military Railways. On July I last the railways of theTransvaal and the Orange River Colonypassed from the department of the armyin South Africa into the hands of thecivil government. The railways of thetwo colonies will continue to be workedtogether, but the name. ImperialMilitary Railways, has been changedto that of the Central South Afri-can Railways. For a time, how-ever, the system of modified military con-trol, says the Johannesburg Star, whichworked so well in Cape Colony and NataUwill be retained. Col. Sir Percy Girouard,who has had extensive experience onEgyptian and Soudan railways with LordKitchener and who was the military di-rector of the South African railways dur-ing the war, has been retained by the civilgovernment as commissioner of railways. In the war between France and Ger-many in 1870, the latter country adopted asystem of railway control by which theactual working of the roads was left to-the civil stafif. In the Orange River and. COMPOUND CONSOLIDATION.—DENVER & RIO GRANDE RAILROAD. tain, both of which are a hard tax onthe engine. The maximum grades be-tween stations vary from less than I percent, to per cent., and the curvesencountered in the steepest climbs are 6degrees. From Toluca to Husted, a dis-tance of 40 miles, there is no compensa-tion in the grading to allow for the pres-ence of curves, which adds to the workthe engines are called on to perform. Onthe second district, from Pueblo to Sa-lida, there is a continuous rise of 2,378ft., the minimum grade being per cent,and the maximum per cent., withcurves ranging from 3 deg. to 12 deg. 30min. In November. 1900. the Baldwin workssupplied the Denver & Rio Grande withsome very similar simple consolidations,with 22x28-in. cylinders, 54-in. driversand weighing 183,790 lbs. These en-gines were used on the Denver-Pueblodivision, but the contin
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