. Electric railway journal . ld and » Elkhorn, ours at full tonnage, 181 hours, 58 hours at reduced tonnage, 26 hours, 05 of trains with reduced tonnage, 2. Weather Time Power Directdfrs 7:00 to 3:00 :00 to 11:00 :00 to 7:00 of empties for delivery to the mines; or the engine mayleave Bluefield light westbound, and pick up loaded carsat Flat Top yards and take them through to Eckman orVivian. On the return trip, when the train has beenfilled out to capacity, the power director is advised thatthe train is ready to move. All
. Electric railway journal . ld and » Elkhorn, ours at full tonnage, 181 hours, 58 hours at reduced tonnage, 26 hours, 05 of trains with reduced tonnage, 2. Weather Time Power Directdfrs 7:00 to 3:00 :00 to 11:00 :00 to 7:00 of empties for delivery to the mines; or the engine mayleave Bluefield light westbound, and pick up loaded carsat Flat Top yards and take them through to Eckman orVivian. On the return trip, when the train has beenfilled out to capacity, the power director is advised thatthe train is ready to move. All information is recorded on a log sheet, of whichthe summary for May 3, 1918, is reproduced in Table IV. This summary shows that on that day nineteentrains handled 789 loads, totaling 61,200 tons. That the Norfolk & Western is as progressive in itssteam activities as in electrification may be shown byciting a few of the things that it is doing, such asthe following: Construction of steel frame and wooden side coal CLOSE-UP OP THE NORFOLK & WESTERN LOCOMOTIVE Completion of sixteen, home-designed and home-built,locomotives (incidentally the largest passenger locomo-tives in the world) during the first four months of 1918. Development and construction of 1750 of the largestcoal cars ever made. These cars carry 100 tons net. Installation of electric furnace for steel castings. Ordinarily the company designs and builds all of itsfreight cars and such engines as shop room will permit. To-day, the company has in use approximately 180Mallet engines and has recently bought another fifty be-cause of the tremendous pressure of business. Compressed Air Society Adopts Definitionsto Eliminate Confusion UPON recommendation of its technical committee theCompressed Air Society, 30 Church Street, NewYork City, has adopted the following definitions of cer-tain compressed-air terms in order to eliminate confu-sion as to their exact meaning: Displacement—The displacement of an air compres
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