. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . running becausethey were short of engines. Jack had been a good runner, and hadworked fai:hfully through thick and thin,and we thought he deserved a bitter rest-ing place than an old pine box. so we gothim one. Got the best we could find in all ofWilkesbarre. too—mahogany, nickel han-dles and all. Then we were wonderingwhat to do with the other one, and somedare-devil of a youngster suggested send- students of Purdue University, on Marchgill. His subject was Railway Signal-ing. .After carefully classifyi
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . running becausethey were short of engines. Jack had been a good runner, and hadworked fai:hfully through thick and thin,and we thought he deserved a bitter rest-ing place than an old pine box. so we gothim one. Got the best we could find in all ofWilkesbarre. too—mahogany, nickel han-dles and all. Then we were wonderingwhat to do with the other one, and somedare-devil of a youngster suggested send- students of Purdue University, on Marchgill. His subject was Railway Signal-ing. .After carefully classifying such sig-nals according to their form and the pur-pose for which they are employed, confined his attention to a dis-cussion of the fundamental principlesaffecting the operation and interpretationof fixed signals. He traced the historicaldevelopment of the signal idea, discussedthe larger and more general questions in-volved, and disclosed the tendencies ofpresent practice. The lecture was illus-trated by means of models and diagrams,which will be given in connection with. IUIVATE OIlICE, P-MnTlVE \\UUI\S. power for the large trains. This step hasnot been taken yet, and hence, in a broadway, it is perfectly true that the system ofelectric transportation, as applied to thesteam roads, is yet in an experimentalstage. i i i Sending the President a Present. We were all young engineers and fire-men then. said an old-time engineer, inspeaking about an incident of war timeson the road, and a little hot-headedabout some things, but wc were madclear through when the company sent a ing it to the president of the road, withour compliments. Well, before we realizedit. we had voted to do it, and off it never knew how it was received; butthe company never sent any more when an engineer or fireman waskilled. Mr. Frederick A. Delano, superinten-dent of the Chicago terminals of the & Q. Railway Company, gave thetenth lecture in the series of addresses
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