. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . A SECTION OF MACHINE SHOP. TOOL ROOM IN STORE ROOM. Fourth—That the supply of air to thefurnace can be regulated at will. I do not think we can always com-mand these conditions, especially in a fur-nace constructed on the principle of de-pending on atmospheric pressure fordraft; and the reason is obvious, becausein order to obtain a good and equal draftwe require not only a tall chimney, butthe chimney must be maintained at a high CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN ROUNDHOUSE. A table was lately published by theRail
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . A SECTION OF MACHINE SHOP. TOOL ROOM IN STORE ROOM. Fourth—That the supply of air to thefurnace can be regulated at will. I do not think we can always com-mand these conditions, especially in a fur-nace constructed on the principle of de-pending on atmospheric pressure fordraft; and the reason is obvious, becausein order to obtain a good and equal draftwe require not only a tall chimney, butthe chimney must be maintained at a high CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN ROUNDHOUSE. A table was lately published by theRailroad Gazette giving particulars of therailroad mileage in all the countries of theworld where railroads are in use. The re-capitulation makes a total of miles,being made up as follows: Europe, 167,-510; North America, 212,848; SouthAmerica, 27,188; Asia, 33,289; Africa, 11,-214, and Australia, 14,490 miles. The par-ticulars were for the end of 1898. 20 X 24-inch consolidated, with 60-inchdrivers. By practical tests we found that with atrain of 700 tons, we could maintain
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