. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e rather lessservice than good steel. In this respect,it is not the American locomotive builderswho are behind the times, but the peopleabroad who persist in using an expensivematerial which is much weaker than steel,much more given to failure, and muchhigher in first cost. The reason why thisis thus, is that foreign engineers have notlearned the art of making good steel fire-boxes. Installation and Care of A itoTntic Electric Signals, with a Com = parison of the Cost of the Different Block Signal System
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e rather lessservice than good steel. In this respect,it is not the American locomotive builderswho are behind the times, but the peopleabroad who persist in using an expensivematerial which is much weaker than steel,much more given to failure, and muchhigher in first cost. The reason why thisis thus, is that foreign engineers have notlearned the art of making good steel fire-boxes. Installation and Care of A itoTntic Electric Signals, with a Com = parison of the Cost of the Different Block Signal Systems. [eighth paper.] As automatic electric signals are coming into such general use, and as the number employed in looking after them increases, it may be well to give some of the few points learned by me in a somewhat limited ,4 —-ti** -*-^S^^- nal that will throw it out of service thatno chances can be taken in the installa-tion, but everything must be of the bestthat money can buy, and the work mustbe as nearly perfect for the end in view asit is possible to make it. It will be true. Good Method of Att.\chixg Wires to a R.\il. experience regarding the installation andcare of these signals, in the hope that someof the readers of these articles nia^- be bene-fited thereb}. Automatic electric signalswhen first installed are generally found togive excellent service, and the officers of theroad congratulate themselves on havingsecured such a good thing. Very soon,however, reports come from enginementhat certain of the signals were foundstanding at danger improperly, and uponan investigation being made, it is discov-ered that the trouble is occasioned by awant of care. The idea that an automatic L
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