. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . electric headlight. Safety Car Heating &Lighting Companys steam-heat equip-ment, including Mason reducing valve. 39 whistle and to be about one thousand timesmore ear-torturing. We think if the peo-ple who complain about the Englishwhistle only went through the agony ofhearing the whistle of an American loco-motive screaming through the country inthe middle of the night, they would bethankful that the English whistle was noworse than it is. The Whistle Nuisance in England. Americans who have heard the wh
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . electric headlight. Safety Car Heating &Lighting Companys steam-heat equip-ment, including Mason reducing valve. 39 whistle and to be about one thousand timesmore ear-torturing. We think if the peo-ple who complain about the Englishwhistle only went through the agony ofhearing the whistle of an American loco-motive screaming through the country inthe middle of the night, they would bethankful that the English whistle was noworse than it is. The Whistle Nuisance in England. Americans who have heard the whistleson British locomotives are generally struckwith the feeble sound emitted, and rail-road men marvel that the whistle producesa signal loud enough to be heard at the In our description of the Lehigh Valleyshops at Sayre, Pa., we omitted to men-tion that the Buffalo Forge Company sup-plied the forge shop equipment, the down-draft forges being used. The BuffaloForge Company control the patents forthis sort of forge, and find that it is be-coming highly popular in SCHENECTADY TEN-WHEELER FOR FLORENCE & CRIPPLE CREEK valves are Richardson balanced, with 5inches travel, J4 inch outside lap and setwith 1-16 inch lead in full gear. The driving wheels have cast-iron cen-ters, and are 42 inches diameter outside oftires. The driving boxes are made of steelcast iron. The main driving axle journalsare 7x8 inches; main crank-pin journals,5x5 inches; side-rod crank-pin, 3^ x 3J4inches. The boiler, as will be noticed, is of theextended wagon-top type, 52 inches diam-eter and carrying 180 pounds of firebox is 84 3-16 inches long, 24^4,inches wide, 47 inches deep in front and45 inches at the back. The crown is sup-ported by radial staybolts, I inch diam-eter, made of special iron. There are 1712-inch tubes, II feet 8 inches long. Thetotal heating surface is 1, squarefeet, of which square feet are in the back end of the train; yet that feebl
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