. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ns very economi-call)-. Fig. 5 shows what maj- be consideredthe standard freight engine of the BritishIsles. Nearly all switching engines are ofthe same form. On different railwaysthere are minor differences due to indi-vidual preferences, but the great majorityof the engines are six-coupled with insidecylinders, straight boilers and a dome inthe middle. The cylinders are generallyabout 18 x 26 inches and the drivers about62 inches diameter. They are said to pullas heavy a train as it is safe to run. Nea
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ns very economi-call)-. Fig. 5 shows what maj- be consideredthe standard freight engine of the BritishIsles. Nearly all switching engines are ofthe same form. On different railwaysthere are minor differences due to indi-vidual preferences, but the great majorityof the engines are six-coupled with insidecylinders, straight boilers and a dome inthe middle. The cylinders are generallyabout 18 x 26 inches and the drivers about62 inches diameter. They are said to pullas heavy a train as it is safe to run. Nearly Some Modern Power for the Cuban ]Railways. There has been some consolidating ofCuban railroads recently, and modempower has been purchased to handle theirtraffic. The Rogers Locomotive Co., of Pater-son, N. J., have recently furnished a num-ber of locomotives of the latest design,pictures of which are shown herewith. The passenger locomotive is the regula-tion American eight-wheeler, having 17x24-inch cylinders, 72-inch drivers, with- arigid wheel base of 8 feet 6 inches and a ■^. \rd P.\ssenger Locomotive for Cub. R.\ all British freight trains are what we wouldcall light and run at a high speed. Theyhave very few power brakes on freightcars, but the progressive railway offi-cers are to see brakes appliedto all freight cars employed on fast locomotives in England areconfined almost exclusivelv to two nil-
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