. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . xpensiveelectrical apparatus. The engine has undergone preliminarytrials on the Caledonian and on the NorthBritish Railways. One of our illustrationsis made from a photograph sent to usby Mr. John Macintosh, locomotivesuperintendent of the Caledonian Rail-way, and the other one from Mr. A. R,Bell, of London. English Running Shed Practice. At the recent meeting of the Institu-tion of Mechanical Engineers in Bir-mingham, England, which was attendedby the many members of the Ameri-can Society of
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . xpensiveelectrical apparatus. The engine has undergone preliminarytrials on the Caledonian and on the NorthBritish Railways. One of our illustrationsis made from a photograph sent to usby Mr. John Macintosh, locomotivesuperintendent of the Caledonian Rail-way, and the other one from Mr. A. R,Bell, of London. English Running Shed Practice. At the recent meeting of the Institu-tion of Mechanical Engineers in Bir-mingham, England, which was attendedby the many members of the Ameri-can Society of Mechanical Engineerswho were guests of the British society,a very interesting paper on Englishrunning shed practice was read by W. Paget, general superintendentof the Midland Railway at other things he said, concern-ing the running shed buildings, they are(.f two types, those in which the roadsare laid parallel, usually called straightsheds, and those in which the roadsradiate from a center turntable, calledround sheds. The straight sheds areeconomical in first cost and mainten-. ^si ^l;-: —- ELECTRO-TURBO ENGINE OR ELECTRIC POWER HOIISE ON WHEELS. supplies current and pressures varyingfrom 200 to 600 volts to four series-woundtraction motors, the armatures of whichare on the four main or driving axles ofthe locomotive. The exhaust steam fromthe turbine is condensed and eventuallyflows into the hot well carried on the• engine. As the steam turbine requires no in-ternal lubrication, the water of condensa- effective and efficient in other applica-tions, and the novelty lies in the combina-tion of the different elements of whichthe locomotive is composed. It is onlywhen the attempt is made to substitutean electric for a steam locomotive thatwe realize at what a very moderate firstcost the steam locomotive can now beproduced in up-to-date establishmentswith modern machinery and scientific ;mce, but unless they are of the typeknown as through sheds they areawk
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