. The locomotive engineer . eet-ing, just as they do to the right here. 1 he tank view shows the heavy,double-screw brakes, and their modeof utiachment, and also the peculiarconstruction of the coal pit, being highand small, wliilr the water space is pro-porlionately large. We are under many obligations toMri Matthew Holmes, superintendent oflocomotive and carriage British Railways, Glasgow, Scut-land, for data and drawings kindly fur-nished for this article. The railroads of the world are ln-tlayworth from tivt-nry-five to thirty thou-sand million dollars. This probably rep-r
. The locomotive engineer . eet-ing, just as they do to the right here. 1 he tank view shows the heavy,double-screw brakes, and their modeof utiachment, and also the peculiarconstruction of the coal pit, being highand small, wliilr the water space is pro-porlionately large. We are under many obligations toMri Matthew Holmes, superintendent oflocomotive and carriage British Railways, Glasgow, Scut-land, for data and drawings kindly fur-nished for this article. The railroads of the world are ln-tlayworth from tivt-nry-five to thirty thou-sand million dollars. This probably rep-resents one-tenth of the total wealth ofcivilized nations, and one-quarter, if notone-third, of their invested capital.—Arthur T. Hadley in Scn//ierS Afag-atine. An Internal Railroad. Many railroad men from the countryhave been surprised to run onto an im-mense freight depot in the heart of thedistrict devoted to wholesale houses inNew York city, while passengers onlycome in as far as 426 street, fifty blocksfurther The has an immense freightdepot at Beach street and West Broad-way, and cars from all over the countryarc there switched back and forth by anumber of mongrel locomotives. Theselocomotives are small, geared, dummy en-gines, on four small wheels ; they areboxed up like a car, have upright boilers,and a reverse lever and throttle located ateach end of the machine; the levers andthrottles work together, and the runneralways changes ends when he wants it togo the other way, there being a link onthe reverse lever handle, that lL)cks thelatch out of gear with the quadrant onthe lever not in use. The power is transmitted to the driversby a geared master shaft in the center ofthe frame, that has a crank-pin on each ,u
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