. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . INCIDENT IN SOLTH -AFRICAN \V.\R. RAIL REMOVED FROM TR.^CK. American engineers and railroad con- the death of a fireman on the are among the working gangs The lad was in charge of a switch onof nearly every pioneer company in Af- a bridge 130 feet above ground, which 204 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE EXGIXEERIXG May, 1905. is being built for the low-grade freightline. He had been practicing with therope and thought it would be sport tocatch some projection of the faste
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . INCIDENT IN SOLTH -AFRICAN \V.\R. RAIL REMOVED FROM TR.^CK. American engineers and railroad con- the death of a fireman on the are among the working gangs The lad was in charge of a switch onof nearly every pioneer company in Af- a bridge 130 feet above ground, which 204 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE EXGIXEERIXG May, 1905. is being built for the low-grade freightline. He had been practicing with therope and thought it would be sport tocatch some projection of the fastened one end of the rope to abeam, and as the engine passed castthe loop at it. Just then the fireman situation. The majority of the peopleare finding other employment for themoney they used to spend in publichouses. Outdoor recreation and excur-sions are becoming more popular. It is not to be doubted that this changehas largely, if not entirely, been brought. heavy timber beds. The pistons have atravel of seven feet. The whole apparatlis is designed on thesame principle as the recoil mechanismof a gun. The cylinders are filled full ofoil and as the pistons are forced fromthe back to the front of the cylindersin the act of stopping a train, the oilflows out through a by-pass valve fromin front of the advancing pistons andHows in behind them. A train of 400tons when moving 10 miles per hourwas stopped by these hydraulic trainbuffers. Russian Women as RailroadEmployees. The number of women working onRussian railways is gradually \ccording to the latest returns thereare now employed on the twenty-fiveRussian state railways about 22,000 wom-en as gatekeepers, clerks, telegraphoperators, etc. The average wage variesfrom 130 to 135 rubles yearly, $65 to $ women clerks receive on an averagefrom 450 rubles to 460 rubles, or aboutS230 per year, while the women attend-ants at stations are paid only 40 rubles,or about $ a year i
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