. Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date . s a Normandy dray-horse with!a carriage-horse of light racing-stock. Railroad men nick-name the new engines whales and battleships. AnAmerican tandem compound or decapod engine some-times weighs as much as two hundred tons, the latterbeing the heaviest locomotive in the world. Individualfreight cars are also many of them three times as large asbefore. It follows that a freight-train crew (conductor,engineer, fireman, and two brakemen) can now regulate the
. Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date . s a Normandy dray-horse with!a carriage-horse of light racing-stock. Railroad men nick-name the new engines whales and battleships. AnAmerican tandem compound or decapod engine some-times weighs as much as two hundred tons, the latterbeing the heaviest locomotive in the world. Individualfreight cars are also many of them three times as large asbefore. It follows that a freight-train crew (conductor,engineer, fireman, and two brakemen) can now regulate the * See the Worlds Work magazine, March, 1904. PREFACE TO TENTH EDITION. XIX moving of 4000 tons of freight as cheaply as 1000 tons a few-years ago,—and with a fraction only of the risk to life; forthe old pin-and-link coupling are no more, and the Westing-house brake, worked from the engine, makes unnecessary theold style of braking, with men knocking off their heads byoverhead bridges and falling from slippery roofs. Not only our freight, but our passenger, locomotives (withtender) now weigh much more,—about 142 tons against tlie. Modern High Speed Locomotive.—New York Central System. Courtesy of the Scientific American. 75 tons of the engines of a decade ago,—and draw trains offrom twelve to sixteen passenger cars of the new style. A very recent feature of freight traffic are the for the shifting of cars. By the aid of an incline Jgrade and the diamond track cutting diagonally all thetracks of the yard, one shifting engine can now do the workof four or five of the old method. (Worlds Work, mag.,March, 1904, p. 453.) Finally, architectural improvements in the terminal pas- XX PREFACE TO TENTH EDITION. senger buildings of the large cities, as well as those of way-stations have been marked in recent years, making a sharpcontrast with the dingy, unsightly infernos in which peoplewere forced to spend so much of their lives during thegreater part of the nineteen
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