. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . PENNSYLVANIA PASSENGER STEEL CAR DURING FIRE TEST. this claim is well founded the companysofficials at Altoona placed shavings andother combustible matter in one of thesteel passenger cars, set fire to the mass,and let it burn. The fire promoting materialburned itself out and left the car verylittle worse from the ordeal. The firewas sufficient to scorch the inside liningand fittings, but nothing took fire. Ourillustration shows the kind of blaze theshavings produced. Soldering Galvanized Iro
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . PENNSYLVANIA PASSENGER STEEL CAR DURING FIRE TEST. this claim is well founded the companysofficials at Altoona placed shavings andother combustible matter in one of thesteel passenger cars, set fire to the mass,and let it burn. The fire promoting materialburned itself out and left the car verylittle worse from the ordeal. The firewas sufficient to scorch the inside liningand fittings, but nothing took fire. Ourillustration shows the kind of blaze theshavings produced. Soldering Galvanized soldering fluid is generallyused on the soldering copper when itis desired to solder galvanized , before commencing to sol-der, it is desirable to dip the solderingcopper while hot in a solution of sal-ammoniac and water. This will retainthe tin on the point of the solderingcopper, which would otherwise PENNSYLVANIA PASSENGER STEEL CAR AFTER FIRE To Be Ready for the Exposition. The Southern Pacific will soon com-mence the erection of a $1,000,000 pas-senger terminal at the foot of Marketstreet. The company has been buying landsfor the right of way during severalyears. The building is to be finishedin time for the exposition traffic. The Corrugated Bar Company haveannounced the removal of their head-quarters from St. Louis. Mo., to Buf-falo, N. Y. The change has been de-cided upon as their plants and stockwarehouse are located near district offices will be maintainedas formerly at St. Louis, Chicago andXew York. 496 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. November, 1911. Too Much Leisure. The Central American republics donot constitute favorable spheres forrailway enterprises. Those who feelinclined to waste valuable efforts inthese regions would do well to ponderover an incident related in the Bostonid: The late Sylvanus Miller, civil en-gineer, who was engaged on a railroa
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