. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . m paint byusing ordinary cleaners, the paint is liableto come off in the washing. .A good andcheaply applied method is to rub thepainted surface with a paste of ordinarvwhiting. This is allowed to dry and whenit is rubbed off with a cloth the dirt andgrease is taken away with it. The whit-ing is cheap and can be purchased at anydrug store. Tiih. l)13. MLWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 245 The De Voy Engine Trailing favorable reports which are beingmade in regard to the adoption of theDe \oy traiHng truck on a large num-ber of Mikado locomotives
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . m paint byusing ordinary cleaners, the paint is liableto come off in the washing. .A good andcheaply applied method is to rub thepainted surface with a paste of ordinarvwhiting. This is allowed to dry and whenit is rubbed off with a cloth the dirt andgrease is taken away with it. The whit-ing is cheap and can be purchased at anydrug store. Tiih. l)13. MLWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 245 The De Voy Engine Trailing favorable reports which are beingmade in regard to the adoption of theDe \oy traiHng truck on a large num-ber of Mikado locomotives recentlyplaced in service on the Chicago, Mil-waukee & St. Paul Railway, as well ason other roads, renders a brief descrip- Iig. 2 is a transverse vertical section ofan engine truck equipped with the DeVoy device. It will be noted that thelocomotive frames are shown in section,to which depending guide pedestals arerigidly secured, the pedestals, which arein line with each other transversely ofthe truck, being separately formed but. PL.\N VIEW OF DE VOY TRUCK. tioii of the device of interest to railroadmen. It may be stated that the chiefaim of the inventor has been to provideimproved means for mounting the trail-ing truck with freedom for lateral move-ments transversely of the locomotiveframework. As is well known hithertoin radial trucks for locomotives thetrailing truck has been mounted to movelaterally on the arc of a circle, and themovement has been permitted only byovercoming a sliding frictional resistancebetween parts which carry the load onto the trailing truck. The springs alsoin the ordinary trailing truck exert astrain tending to maintain the trailingtruck in an intermediary position, whichposition it properly occupies when run-ning on a straight track. The weight,however, is so great that the friction be-tween the parts, which must slip over eachother, that the spring device is inefficientto overcome the same, so that the flangesof the wheel are pressed with much fo
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