. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in-stantly. i i i The Dickson JIfg. Co., of Scranton, Pa.,have lately lost an old employe, who washighly valued and respected by the officersof the company. He was .\lexander Turn-bull, a Scotchman, who came to this coun-try in 1H52, and had been almost fortyyears in the employment of the Dicksonpeople. He held the position of they talked of retiring him on apension, he always insisted that he wouldlike to die in harness. This came liter-ally true, for one morning last month hedied while si
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . in-stantly. i i i The Dickson JIfg. Co., of Scranton, Pa.,have lately lost an old employe, who washighly valued and respected by the officersof the company. He was .\lexander Turn-bull, a Scotchman, who came to this coun-try in 1H52, and had been almost fortyyears in the employment of the Dicksonpeople. He held the position of they talked of retiring him on apension, he always insisted that he wouldlike to die in harness. This came liter-ally true, for one morning last month hedied while sitting on his chair in the en-gine room. He had no illness previously,and seemed as if he had just gone tosleej). The secretary of the .American RailwayMaster Mechanics has beenlaboring since last con\ention to inducerailroad companies to adopt for shop usethe decimal gage for sheet metal tubes,made standard at . Bay one hundred gages have been or-dered, and the indications are that thePratt & AVhitney Co. will soon put thegage upon the By W. H. ELLIOTT, Signal Engineer, C, M. & St. P. Details of Construction. [tvvpxkth paper.]There are man\- regarding theform and particular arrangement of theseveral parts used in working the switchesandjsignals at an interlocking plant, all ofwhich are of great interest to signal engi-neers, or to those whose duties requirethem to keep such parts in repair, but tothe average railroad man, who perhapswill never have occasion to use any knowl-edge that he may have gained relative tothe details of construction, a ncss, this quality being of the first import-ance from the fact that but a single con-nection is used between the lever and aswitch, the power being applied as a pull
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