. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tevant Co., of Boston,Mass., has recently sold for export toJapan, a complete lumber dry kiln equip-ment, consisting of a steel plate enginedriven fan with direct connected heat-er, and a full outfit of iron work for lum-ber trucks, tee rails, etc. Master Mechanic Daniel Deeter hasturned out a new locomotive from therepair shops of the Reading Railway atReading, Pa., which is attracting muchattention. The driving wheels are 7 The engine weighs 65 tons. Thefinishing is a samole of fin
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tevant Co., of Boston,Mass., has recently sold for export toJapan, a complete lumber dry kiln equip-ment, consisting of a steel plate enginedriven fan with direct connected heat-er, and a full outfit of iron work for lum-ber trucks, tee rails, etc. Master Mechanic Daniel Deeter hasturned out a new locomotive from therepair shops of the Reading Railway atReading, Pa., which is attracting muchattention. The driving wheels are 7 The engine weighs 65 tons. Thefinishing is a samole of fine workman-ship. The cylinder heads are nickelplated, the frames shine like silver, andthe mountings look like burnished gold. Superintendent McCarty, of the South-west System of the Pennsylvania Rail-road, is greatly interested in an auto-matic stoker invented by two employeesof the Haven Company, The coal is car-ried from a tender to a hopper fromwhich, by the use of steam, it is scat-tered into the fire. There is much sec-recv about the tests. 37S RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING August, oJ <s August, 1905. RAII-WAV AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 379 New Shops on the Canadian PacificRailway. Many of the railway companies in theUnited States would do well to take alesson from the Canadian Pacific Rail-way, who has recently opened theirnew shops at Montreal. The tool equip-ment of these shops is in many respectsthe best in the world. The Niles-Be-ment-Pond Company secured the orderfor practically all the large machines. As will be seen from the illustrationon the next page, the shops are of vastproportions, the main shop, of which theillustration is a view, covering about 4Aac-es, the length being 1,167 ft- by 162 ins. in width. The shops were plannedfnr repairing 50 locomotives per month,and for building 6 new locomotives permonth. This record will likely be sur-passed, as some of the records already Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific FreightEngine. The accompany
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