. American engineer and railroad journal . cushion all the draft stresses without closingup. 2. Stronger attachments to receive the thrusts of thefollowers, and 3, more direct transmission of the stresses fromthe coupler to the underframe of the car. In the draft gear, designed and patented by Mr. Simons,which is illustrated here, these features have all received at- LOCOMOTIVES IN GERMANY. Germany has eighteen shops turning out locomotives bothfor home and foreign use, according to a recent letter fromConsul J. C. Monaghan, from Chemnitz, Hfteen of these buildboth large and small engines, and
. American engineer and railroad journal . cushion all the draft stresses without closingup. 2. Stronger attachments to receive the thrusts of thefollowers, and 3, more direct transmission of the stresses fromthe coupler to the underframe of the car. In the draft gear, designed and patented by Mr. Simons,which is illustrated here, these features have all received at- LOCOMOTIVES IN GERMANY. Germany has eighteen shops turning out locomotives bothfor home and foreign use, according to a recent letter fromConsul J. C. Monaghan, from Chemnitz, Hfteen of these buildboth large and small engines, and three build nothing butsmall ones for light work. These can furnish annually, undernormal conditions, 1,400 engines. They employ from ,000 to20,000 workmen—the number depending upon the orders. Ger-many locomotives to Russia, Sweden, Norway, Den-maik, Turkey, South America, South Africa and Asia. Ahouse here sent nineteen a year or two ago to the Dutch to date, as far as can be found out, no United States en-. K -m- \0
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