. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . valve. The device is operated by a large 398 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. December, 1916. air cylinder, and it clamps the head tothe bed simultaneously both at tlie frontand back. The right-hand headstock is equippedwith power traverse of a new and ef-ficient construction. The traverse is oper-ated by an , separate motor placedat the end of the bed. The motor en-gages a large friction clutch, operated bya lever conveniently located so that the the tools under the heaviest cuts. T
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . valve. The device is operated by a large 398 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. December, 1916. air cylinder, and it clamps the head tothe bed simultaneously both at tlie frontand back. The right-hand headstock is equippedwith power traverse of a new and ef-ficient construction. The traverse is oper-ated by an , separate motor placedat the end of the bed. The motor en-gages a large friction clutch, operated bya lever conveniently located so that the the tools under the heaviest cuts. Thewedge action forms a positive lock in-dependent of the air pressure. Anotherfeature that has proved of great ad-vantage to operators is the magnetic pushbutton control, which is furnished whenthe drive is by direct current. Two pushbutton switches are situated near the car-riages; one for starting and stopping themotor, and the other for slowing down including the estimated number of jour-neys by season ticket holders, it was1,591,000,000. Tlie freight carried thatyear totaled 372,000,000 Equipment of the New York Central. The New York Central has filed an ap-plication with the Public Service Com-mission in regard to the New YorkCentral Trust of 1917. It proposes pur-chasing 4,000 steel box freight cars; 3,000all-steel coal cars; 100 steel passengercoaches; 100 steel baggage cars; 30 mul-tiple unit cars, and 10 electric locomo-tives. The estitnated cost will be $15,-(100,000. Time Fuses of Great Britain. The American Locomotive Companyhas received an order for 1,000,000 timefuses for the British Government, thecontract providing for renewals at theoption of the purchaser on fuses at the contract price. Theorder will be divided with the Westing-liouse Air Brake Company, which com-pany also shared the 2,200,000 fuse orderplaced with the locomotive company last^ummer and now nearly completed. VIEW or C.\R WITH POWER TRAVERSE OF HE.\DSTOCK.
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