. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the fact that theframes of the high and low pressureengines are not rigidly connected. Be- fore tlie furnace and waste bearers canbe laid off it is necessary to have thehigh and low pressure engine frames onan exact level in relation to each this case the simple contrivance ofhose and gauge glasses can again beused to advantage. The top rail offrames make a convenient point I0level from. Thus what, on the face ofit, seems a diflicult problem is madteasy. \V. Smith. Nezvark. Ohio. The
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the fact that theframes of the high and low pressureengines are not rigidly connected. Be- fore tlie furnace and waste bearers canbe laid off it is necessary to have thehigh and low pressure engine frames onan exact level in relation to each this case the simple contrivance ofhose and gauge glasses can again beused to advantage. The top rail offrames make a convenient point I0level from. Thus what, on the face ofit, seems a diflicult problem is madteasy. \V. Smith. Nezvark. Ohio. The Middle West Heard From. Editor: In reading the pages not only 01your valuable magazine, but of railroa(1literature in general, the scarcity of ar-ticles on the railroads of several sec-tions of our country, notably the greatMiddle West, has greatly inipresse<lnie. The papers now appearing .XND Locomotive Engineeringprepared liy .Mr. James Kennedy till aIdng felt want with me. and I am suremany others in this section are morethan ordinarily interested. Tn your March paper Mr. Kennedy. FUISCtJ , on. mentions tlie high grade of work per-formed by the Missouri Pacific at Atch-ison, Kan., although the shop space isvery limited and the roundhouse is overforty years old. He hopes there willbe a new roundhouse and a new ma-chine shop when he again visits theWest. It may interest you to knowI he Missouri Pacific has preparedplans for the enlarging of the Atchi-son shops, work to begin early in thispring, and estimated to cost $100,000I am enclosing several snapshots otengines hauling trains in and out ofKansas City. The Frisco 4-6-0 is type, hauling fast express burns oil, has Walschaerts valvegear, wide firebox, and was built inigo8. The other 4-6-0 is a Katy en-gine, used on the Texas Mail and theKaty Flyer. The 2-8-0 engine is pull-ing a northbound Rock Island dragon a track just east of the Union De-pot train sheds. The depot is shown i
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