. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st the setting sun, descry the spiresof Eldorado. Little do you know yourown blessedness; for to travel hopefullyis a better thing than to arrive, and thetrue success is to labor.—Stevenson. Who heareth the eternal voice is de-livered from many an opinion. September, 1911. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 397 Brake Rigging for Six-Wheel connection with recent new carequipment cm the Pennsylvania Rail-road, the re-designing of the truck re-ceived careful consideration, and it wasne
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st the setting sun, descry the spiresof Eldorado. Little do you know yourown blessedness; for to travel hopefullyis a better thing than to arrive, and thetrue success is to labor.—Stevenson. Who heareth the eternal voice is de-livered from many an opinion. September, 1911. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 397 Brake Rigging for Six-Wheel connection with recent new carequipment cm the Pennsylvania Rail-road, the re-designing of the truck re-ceived careful consideration, and it wasnecessary to construct a new systemof brake rigging, and a method was de-vised embodying the principle of an in-dependent set of triple brakes fi>r each No Spot Safe from Lightning.\ widespread belief is that during a thunder storm safety may be fo I undr, A. \V. Borthwick, theBritish naturalist, finds this view to beentirely without foundation. The I-. trains and trolley cars are alwa 0 hour-, added to the daI he flying machine will change the wearyi oming and going to im igorating 11 «•tion and S|> We also venture the prediction thatg from past performances tling machine, if brought into general use,will greatl the troublesomi pie who complain about railway train-,being too slow. .NEW PENNSYLVANIA STEEL CAR. SIX-WHEELED TRUCK. side of the six-wheeled truck which ap-ply their braking force to the brakebeams adjacent to the brake heads,thereby avoiding heavy bending strainsusually present in brake beams. The brakes of each truck, as shownin the accompanying illustrations, areconnected to the ends of horizontalequalizers by links. Application of thebrakes moves the link to the left, there- is not avoided by lightning, which strikesone species as readilj as an ther, but thetaller trees in a neighborhood appear tobe the ones liable to be struck. The ef-fects of lightning also are commonly mis-understood. The cells of a tree are no
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