. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . interesting news of railroading in a sisterre|)nl)lic. There arc two gages in is 2 feet 6 inches and ihc other tliometer. Tlie former runs from Sitio. astation on the Central Kaihoad of Brazil,to Paraopcha. where tlie Kio Iaraojjebajoins the Rio San Francisco, a distanceof 6o2 kilometers (.■? miles). There3iro also two lini., one of ,^4 (Jimiles) and the other of 4H kilometers(ji).5^ miles). Tlie last meets the meter ((1 |)onnils). .-nid cattle cars carry I?head , Imt the o
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . interesting news of railroading in a sisterre|)nl)lic. There arc two gages in is 2 feet 6 inches and ihc other tliometer. Tlie former runs from Sitio. astation on the Central Kaihoad of Brazil,to Paraopcha. where tlie Kio Iaraojjebajoins the Rio San Francisco, a distanceof 6o2 kilometers (.■? miles). There3iro also two lini., one of ,^4 (Jimiles) and the other of 4H kilometers(ji).5^ miles). Tlie last meets the meter ((1 |)onnils). .-nid cattle cars carry I?head , Imt the overhang of these carsmakes cattle trallic <Iecide(lly risky on thenarrower gage. A whole train has beenknown to fall on its side romiding a sliar|icurve. The locomotives are all Baldwins, whilethe cars are from the Lancaster Comi) Iliigland, excepting a few made in Kiode Janeiro, and those constructed hy theE. F. Ocstc dc Minas in llieir own water scene is one of the views alongthe line, being the Rio das Mortes (Riverof Deaths), between .Sao Joas del Rei TlIK UEIUKII l;Uli.\KER—E. F. OESTE UE ., \ZIL. of the train by their indications has hadHttlt to say. A few words from his pointof view may be of interest. In the first place, all station signals, bywhich we mean order boards, switch tar-gets and lights, and yard limit sema-phores should be of a positive character;that is, they should show a certain stand--ard shape of target and color of light forClear, and ancjther shape of target andcolored light for Stop or Not will take up the matter of orderboards first, as they are, or should be, itall telegraph offices. A vcrycomnion formof order board has an oval target paintedred with two white disks on it. In somecases instead of the white disks there arctwo round holes in the target, with theedges painted white, so that the positionof the target can be more easily deter-mined in daylight. This is in a nieasur.;a negative signa
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