. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . LADIES ROOM, PARLOR CAR. were granted an extension of time show1, freight cars owned, an increaseof 20,611 over the number reported onDecember i, 1897. During the six freight cars were equipped withautomatic couplers and 67,400 were fittedwith train brakes, inaking a total of , or 69 per cent., having automaticcouplers, and 511,666, or 44 per cent.,equipped with train brakes, up to June i,1898. On that date , or 90 per cent.,of the total number of locomotives ownedby th
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . LADIES ROOM, PARLOR CAR. were granted an extension of time show1, freight cars owned, an increaseof 20,611 over the number reported onDecember i, 1897. During the six freight cars were equipped withautomatic couplers and 67,400 were fittedwith train brakes, inaking a total of , or 69 per cent., having automaticcouplers, and 511,666, or 44 per cent.,equipped with train brakes, up to June i,1898. On that date , or 90 per cent.,of the total number of locomotives ownedby these reporting carriers were equippedwith driving-wheel brakes. The return? for the six months endingDecember 1, 1898, are not yet filed, butit is believed that they will show reason-able progress and indicate the probabilityof full provision of automatic couplersand the required number of train brakeson January i, 1900, the date when theextension order will expire. Thousand.^of cars have been inspected during the. INTERIOR PARLOR CAR. ing the year ending June 30, 1897, thanduring the year ending June 30. 1893. Inthe Spanish-American war 298 men werekilled and 1,645 were wounded. In 1897there were 1,693 men killed and 27,667 in-jured from all causes in railway coupling and uncoupling cars alone219 less men were killed and lesswere injured in 1897 than in 1893. Thenumber of such employes killed has beenreduced one-half, and the number of in-jured also practically reduced reduction in the number of accidentsfrom all causes largely exceeded in 1single year the entire casualties during thelate war. Dont Neglect Trifling Details. Very small straws indicate how thecurrent flows. Very small characteristicsindicate how the habits of a young manturn. Talking on this subject a well-known road foreman of engines re-marked : When I got a new fireman Ialways judged his usefulness and abilityby what may seem trifling tests. Iwould tell him to fill the oil cans an
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