. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ranged, by years, in the order oftheir service on the road. These rail sec-tions are ah object-lesson in track evolu-tion, taking the observer from the oldfiat rail, about 2 inches wide and H inchthick, as used on the Camden & AmboyRailroad in 1831, up to the T-rail of allsorts and dimensions; irom thence to theinverted-U section, and then to thedouble-head rail, showing that foreignpractice had not been neglected. Fromthis rail the sections are of the single-headtype, which has become the standard ofthi
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ranged, by years, in the order oftheir service on the road. These rail sec-tions are ah object-lesson in track evolu-tion, taking the observer from the oldfiat rail, about 2 inches wide and H inchthick, as used on the Camden & AmboyRailroad in 1831, up to the T-rail of allsorts and dimensions; irom thence to theinverted-U section, and then to thedouble-head rail, showing that foreignpractice had not been neglected. Fromthis rail the sections are of the single-headtype, which has become the standard ofthis country by the law of the survival ofthe fittest, the highest development ofwhich is seen in the 100-pound rail sec-tion also in this exhibit, bringing it downto date. The collection is one of thegreatest interest to students of railroadhistory, and particularly valuable as theyears slip by. i i i The people of Cheyenne, Wyo., are verymuch excited over the rumor that thenew owners of the Union Pacific will closeup the repair shops at Cheyenne. February. i8 LOCOMOTIVE O g cij p pa W O Ou O wu < P< Q< a BZ 3z 80 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. February, 189S. Fads and Fancies In LocomotiveBuilding No. 2. This is one of the most peculiar engines\VL know of, but the time at which it wasbuilt is a good excuse for many of itsoddities. It was built by the Camden &Amboy Company, in i8j4, and was thefirst engine built by them to burn anthra-cite coal. Her cylinders were 18 x 30inches, and the eight driving wheels were4 feet in diameter and all connected. There were only four of these built andthey soon came into the hands of the KiteMr. Isaac Dripps to be rebuilt, some veryimportant changes being made in both thewheel base and boiler. The modernizedmonster was illustrated in these col-umns in February, 1890. but this is, webelieve, the only picture of the original inexistence. It will be noticed that the connectionbetween the crossheads and the swinginglink arm, is not
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