. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at thepresent time. Our chief editor intends tovisit friends in the British Isles this sum-mer after the M. M. and the M. C. B. con-ventions are over, and his observationsmade in 1808 were at that time previous toa trip to the old land. He said: It hasbeen my privilege to ride on a great manyfast trains in America and Great have a habit of carrying a -up watch referring to my note book, to give par-ticulars, the best of friends would regardme with a pitying smile which said asplainl
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . at thepresent time. Our chief editor intends tovisit friends in the British Isles this sum-mer after the M. M. and the M. C. B. con-ventions are over, and his observationsmade in 1808 were at that time previous toa trip to the old land. He said: It hasbeen my privilege to ride on a great manyfast trains in America and Great have a habit of carrying a -up watch referring to my note book, to give par-ticulars, the best of friends would regardme with a pitying smile which said asplainly as possible he has acquired skillin the Yankee habit of boasting andlying. As I am going to be visiting amongrailway friends abroad for a few weeksI wished to witness for myself the runof the fastest train in the world, thatruns from Camden to Atlantic City, adistance of miles in 50 minutes, anaverage speed of miles per hour. Through the courtesy of Mr. Theo-dore Voorhees, vice president of thePhiladelphia & Reading Railway, I re- 230 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING June, ceived permission to ride on the engine 1 ut another train without a minutes de- I was sitting on the firemens side andof that celebrated train. The train is lay. That tine record was due to the could not see how the engineer wasdue t0 , ,d n. which is across care in seeing that everything was in handling his reverse lever and throttle the Delaware River from Philadelphia, at good order before the start was made, lever, but I noticed that there was no3:50 P. M., and I was there in good time In conversing with Vice-President Voor- change in the point of cut-off after theto witness the preliminary touches given hees I found that he attributed the sue- train was going forty miles an hour, andto the locomotive before starting upon cessful running of this train in a great it seemed to me that the steam was per-mitted to follow the piston at a littlemore than, half stroke. The steam pres-sure g
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