. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . regulated by weight, but he did notthink that the ordinary yardmaster was>ngh in assigning loads. Mr. Bradley ga\perience when he was a conductor. Hehad an engineer named Howard, Theywere pulling a great Seal oE flour andleather. When he wanted to make a goodrun he told Howard that all the cars wereIsaded with leather, and they got therepromptly, no matter if flour filled most ofthe ears. Mr. Mitchell mentioned 1 Mr. Cnlvin—On the Erie road, yearsago. when it was a broad-gauge road, andwhen they had n
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . regulated by weight, but he did notthink that the ordinary yardmaster was>ngh in assigning loads. Mr. Bradley ga\perience when he was a conductor. Hehad an engineer named Howard, Theywere pulling a great Seal oE flour andleather. When he wanted to make a goodrun he told Howard that all the cars wereIsaded with leather, and they got therepromptly, no matter if flour filled most ofthe ears. Mr. Mitchell mentioned 1 Mr. Cnlvin—On the Erie road, yearsago. when it was a broad-gauge road, andwhen they had no foreign cars, it wasquite easy to load their cars very every man here believes, t amsure, that one engine can pull one car withthirty tons easier than three cars with tentons each There is hardly any road butwhat the bill that limits the weights oftrains is located within one mile on tht;road, and it seems to me that the economi-cal load to put on a locomotive is the trainthat it is possible for it to get over thatparticular grade. Such a tram would be : economical o. are naturally Interested these times, whentheir reputation is at stake, on making thetngines under their charge show the great-est number of mi|es run lietween shopping,or in other words, the most miles at leastexpense, reg,ardless whether the company>i earning any money from that class ofservice. On the other hand, the heads oftransportation departments of to-day. inorder to keep up the standard of othernicn. or even of their own records of threer four years ago, are compelled to over-•lad the engine on account of the greaternumber of large capacity ears coming Mr. Bradley. West Shore, favored load-ing engines according to tonnage and not engine and had loaded it by the stenciledweight of empty cars. The engine did inot seem to be equal to the work and he ihad some of the cars weighed. Those Iitencilcd for 30,000 light weight weighed txbout 38,000 Joughins believed tl [ereslsotlh
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