. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ce set aside thesooner shareholders will reap some T. Vue, Southchurch, Eng. An Australian Wreck. I am sending you photographs of theaccident at Zig Zag, thinking tliey may in-terest your readers. It was impossible toshow all that I wished, but you will seethat the engine plowed its way clear tothe edge of the bank. This is some 500 Pickled Railroad Ties. Pickled railroad ties are being used onquite a number of the railroads in theUnited States, among which are the South
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ce set aside thesooner shareholders will reap some T. Vue, Southchurch, Eng. An Australian Wreck. I am sending you photographs of theaccident at Zig Zag, thinking tliey may in-terest your readers. It was impossible toshow all that I wished, but you will seethat the engine plowed its way clear tothe edge of the bank. This is some 500 Pickled Railroad Ties. Pickled railroad ties are being used onquite a number of the railroads in theUnited States, among which are the South-ern Pacific, the Atchison, the Union Pa-cific and the Burlington. The item of tieshas become quite a large one when theexpenses of modern railroading are con-sidered. The method of pickling the tiesis to place the green tie in a large tubularvessel, pump as much air from it aspossible, fill it with the preservingliquid and heat it to the boiling sends the liquid into the poresof the tie, saturating it thorough-ly and preserving it against rot anddeterioration. A number of the railroads. AUSTRALIAN WRECK. feet away from the viaduct shown in thegeneral view. This view was taken fromthe top of the mountain and shows clearlywhy this place is called Zig Zag. Thebrewery in the lower corner is said to usethe finest water in New South Wales inits product. This road runs some 210 miles and hassome very heavy grades. The extremeelevation is 3,426 feet above sea level, andthere are grades 3J^ miles long of 126feet to the mile. John Jordan. Penrith, N. S. W. have already erected pickling vats of thiskind for preserving their railroad roads have the work done by anindividual company, who will move theirplant to a convenient point on the roadand there do the railroads work of pick-ling by contract. The Buffalo Forge Company have is-sued some neat little pamphlets on theirshaving and dust separator, planing-millexhausters and volume blowers and ex-hausters. The advantag
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