. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st the building asshown, to prevent any collisions at air cylinders are worked by en-gineers brake valves at tin- of thebuilding, a man being shown operatingthem in the kit hand view . Power is supplied by a 9^-inch \\ 1 1inghouse air pump at a pressure oi [20pounds per square inch. wished to end his life by getting acci-di killed in a railway he do it? Certainly. If hi 0 get on a train and ride, ride, rid at the rate of j,slA miles anhour, day and night, without
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . st the building asshown, to prevent any collisions at air cylinders are worked by en-gineers brake valves at tin- of thebuilding, a man being shown operatingthem in the kit hand view . Power is supplied by a 9^-inch \\ 1 1inghouse air pump at a pressure oi [20pounds per square inch. wished to end his life by getting acci-di killed in a railway he do it? Certainly. If hi 0 get on a train and ride, ride, rid at the rate of j,slA miles anhour, day and night, without everping, with average luck he would eally get surcease from the gnawing painhi 11 1 iinewhcre in thl • iirsc ofpassing over 35,542,282 miles. Unfortu-nately, however, he would be injuredabout nine times before he reached hisend. Ilis possible journey would havetaken him round this weary world 1,421times. And the cost? Nearly !And he would be in his 135th year by thetime his desperate purpose was achieved,and it is to be hoped would have more1 n 1 than he started with. $ $ §. When the engine comes in it stopsunder the crane, with its tank by the waterspout and its sand-box under the pipe,which is seen projecting from the sand-house this side of the bridge. At thesame time the men run-a car under theashpan and one under the front end, andboth the ashes and cinders are dumpedinto them while the sand-box and tankare both receiving their respective con-tents. In this way all the operations areperformed, and the engine is ready toleave the pit in twenty minutes—quite anitem wdien several are waiting for theirturn. When an opportunity presents, thecars are run under the crane, the air hoistrun over the pit and the ash dumps liftedout of their trucks, run over the othertrack and dumped into the car by hoistinguntil the levers come in contact with thering shown. This dumps the load byopening the bucket. The hoisting cylinder is made of castiron pipe, 12 inches internal dia
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