. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . se of the convenient means ofstopping the motor when halting at sta-tions, oil flow can be easily shut off atsuch times. The Engineering Standard Commit-tee of the East Indian Railways hav£reported in favor of widening the rail-way tracks to 5 ft. 6 ins. Two speciallocomotives are being built for thatgauge and extensive experiments willbe made on a short distance limit of height has been reached,and the future may see a general in-crease in the width of railway tracks. 134 RAILWAY
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . se of the convenient means ofstopping the motor when halting at sta-tions, oil flow can be easily shut off atsuch times. The Engineering Standard Commit-tee of the East Indian Railways hav£reported in favor of widening the rail-way tracks to 5 ft. 6 ins. Two speciallocomotives are being built for thatgauge and extensive experiments willbe made on a short distance limit of height has been reached,and the future may see a general in-crease in the width of railway tracks. 134 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING March, 1906. Crosshead Jack or Fulcrum. The illustration which we give iswhat Mr. John F. Long, the generalforeman of the Frisco shops at Monet,Mo., calls a crosshead jack. It is madeof two pieces of flat iron bolted to-gether at regular intervals and held aspecified distance apart by thimblesround each bolt. When placed along-side of the guide bars it forms a seriesof convenient fulcrums for the barwhich a workman uses to move thecrosshead in either direction when re-. ijuLijjira CROSSHEAD JACK. • newing piston rod packing or adjustingthe connecting rod to the wristpin, or,indeed, for any purpose which requirespiston or crosshead to be placed in aparticular position. The appliance hasthe advantage of being one piece, andwhen used it generally replaces a lot ofblocks and nuts and odds and endswhich go to build up a temporary butfearfully and wonderfully made cross-head fulcrum which usually falls downbetween every jerk on the bar. An announcement is made that therailway express companies will no lon-ger grant free transportation of pack-ages to favored interests. We wonderwho the favored interests were. Theexpress companies have been the mostvicious blood suckers on small lines ofbusiness the country has suffered they have been powerful enouglito restrain public sentiment from de-manding that they be treated as com-mon carriers. satisfact
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