. The locomotive engineer . Railroad have been j-Tmilv late tn the trial trips of a new riir<lrl i iii<- The engine has a self-balancing uiiininini- ivlm li ilirowsthe entire weight on the sin;rli; iliivhi^: wlurl atstarting, and on the pony trucks, when under head-way H-has also a compressed air device whichrings the liell and ejects sand on the track at theproper time. wi0/£mc/m^ Soma Kluk* ou Bxchance. Ediior The LncmnoiiTt Engineer : You talk about your lightning flue cutler, butyou ought just to see mine in ihe lliree-fool gaugeshop. I have a circular saw in our wood s
. The locomotive engineer . Railroad have been j-Tmilv late tn the trial trips of a new riir<lrl i iii<- The engine has a self-balancing uiiininini- ivlm li ilirowsthe entire weight on the sin;rli; iliivhi^: wlurl atstarting, and on the pony trucks, when under head-way H-has also a compressed air device whichrings the liell and ejects sand on the track at theproper time. wi0/£mc/m^ Soma Kluk* ou Bxchance. Ediior The LncmnoiiTt Engineer : You talk about your lightning flue cutler, butyou ought just to see mine in ihe lliree-fool gaugeshop. I have a circular saw in our wood shop thatI use to cut Ihem off. I used to cut (hem off byhand, which was very slow work; so one day Iheidea struck me that it could be done much easieron the sow, so I reversed the saw and ran il biick-wanls. I sawed off 100 flues in about one hour, andbad them at the fire ready to weld them. Youwould be surprised lo see how quick it is done onthe old circular sow. I would like lo bear from some experienced moii. Nbw Exiiaist. the (piickesi and Im-<41 plan of cleaning old fiu(«t. Ido not approve of the old way of rolling them, luiyon wii»le too much of the Iron, or whatever mate-rial they are made of; alio scraping them betweentwo Die-* wu9l4« them away, antl uxing a pick pitsthem too mud), uud [lutiing in a strong pickle willInjure the flue; so lei ux litair a gurid plan that innot injurious to the llue Now, Mr. Editor, this is my plan of swappingideas; ihis idea of cutting Hues is, so fur as I know,original with me, Do you know of any good boiler compound fortaking scale from a locomotive boiler while inservice, that will not injure the boiler, so that wecould use that a month or so before bringing in shop, and Ihe Hues would be clean. E. A, 8upt. M, P. & Muchy. Jlomttm. Tex. A T«xaH LoV«.Lclt« The iMrniniilifr Engineer: Please act pnslofilce department for forward-ing Ihc following note to my own true Dkar Mil. PiiKl
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