. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ne end of the car riding on the link car had nin in this condition some tenmiles. The truck was found, badlybroken. 134 LOCOMOTIVE ENSINEERING Babbitt M«tal. with I ions, and asked Ihem where they gnuine babbitt. They said it could nbought; it had lo be made according eha\ reeled by term, babbitt raeUl, but f(Spokane, stand how important the alloyirly well sidcred * * samples of r lught forty Mfg. Co. ;lal marked Genuine Bab- isometni ____ __ bought in eveJy part of the gei England Railroad cou


. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ne end of the car riding on the link car had nin in this condition some tenmiles. The truck was found, badlybroken. 134 LOCOMOTIVE ENSINEERING Babbitt M«tal. with I ions, and asked Ihem where they gnuine babbitt. They said it could nbought; it had lo be made according eha\ reeled by term, babbitt raeUl, but f(Spokane, stand how important the alloyirly well sidcred * * samples of r lught forty Mfg. Co. ;lal marked Genuine Bab- isometni ____ __ bought in eveJy part of the gei England Railroad cou In looking up Of tu= .... . - - „»:„„ «,hich disc. ,. ,ve found that a sample, which, by a stretch of courtesy, motion which disp. ISabbitt had re- could be called genuine babbitt; I mean Units ana eccen described by Isaac Babbitt m 1839. I ment. dermng therefore, venture the opinion that heads, and is Lewis Valve Gear. e received from the Valve GeaiSt. Louis, a blue print giving ar ircular containing claimPortland, the savings affected by the usesingle gear. This gear. regular heavy repairing (01division of this road. As vthe phsis engincft. the tot number. The engine pitiplied with u light overcrane and the entire buildings electricity. In tile cor shop heavy repairs ebuilding as well us running repairs w lachine shop for Imih c subNequcntly hu riLeivkjdagrimfrom Congress in considerotion It thing for mankindI was told the other day thatimpossible to buy genuine babbitt which the ordinary acids of lubricatingoils will not alTccl; and the truck will rujiand keep perfectly cool. Mr. Isaac Bab-bitt himself, in his original patent usedfifty parts of tin. fiv ,, _-. .)f course, the very groatdisadvantage of introducing any leadwhatever in a soft bearing is the fact that 1 itself has no compression jo speak of. whereby the sroads where sleei LOCOMOTIVE ENQINEERINQ. .—Practical Letters • from Practical Men. Facts Wanted. rting valves, and one cause for this leak


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