. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at upper surface ofthe trough-like backbone are two rol-lers, held in brackets. These brackets House judiciary committee meets theneeds of the country, giving the Federalauthorities the power to act, and pun-ishing train robbing so severely that theClaude Duvals of the backwoods will nolonger think it a heroic or profitablesport. We need the law and should haveit at once to suppress the threatened re-vival of train robbing in this country. Annoying Delays to Trains in Yards. Trainmen are freq
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at upper surface ofthe trough-like backbone are two rol-lers, held in brackets. These brackets House judiciary committee meets theneeds of the country, giving the Federalauthorities the power to act, and pun-ishing train robbing so severely that theClaude Duvals of the backwoods will nolonger think it a heroic or profitablesport. We need the law and should haveit at once to suppress the threatened re-vival of train robbing in this country. Annoying Delays to Trains in Yards. Trainmen are frequently exasperatedby unexplained delays to trains that theyhave been called to go out with. Hereis an explanation of a common case de-scribed in a paper presented to the NewEngland Railroad Club: One of the greatest obstacles to thesatisfactory and economical working ofa yard is in the giving of special ordersfor preferred movement of certain properly organized yard has its workplanned out, hour by hour; the enginesdistributed so as to work with the ut-most freedom and prevent them from be-. HANDY SHOP TRESTLE FOR SMOKESTACK MAKER can be moved anywhere along the topand are held in position each by a pairof large unopened split keys or a pairof iron pegs. The trestles are used in the making andrepairing of smoke stacks and are animprovement on the projecting rail endor other appliance usually placed at thedisposal of the smoke stack maker. Ifthe stack to be made is taper a suita-ble adjustment of the rollers can behad. The trestles can be carried any-where and are light and strong. A far-reaching law which pledged thegovernment to suppress train robbingand gave it the power to do so. with, alittle assistance of the rurales or localpolice assistance made obligatory andnot dependent on the rewards offered,has stopped train robbing in want just such a law: it is now be-fore Congress and should be can be no excuse or palliation oftrain robberies; there
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