. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Not long agowhen traveling via Calais to Londonwith his suite he asked and received per-mission to ride on the eng-ne of tlieCalais express. When the train arrived at Abbeville,which is about 96 miles from Paris, hedonned a pair of overalls and jumper,left his private car and took a seat on Looks Like Poor Inspection. A serious wreck recently occurred toa limited train on one of our trunk train was derailed on an embank-ment and plunged down the side about20 ft. Fortunately no one w
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Not long agowhen traveling via Calais to Londonwith his suite he asked and received per-mission to ride on the eng-ne of tlieCalais express. When the train arrived at Abbeville,which is about 96 miles from Paris, hedonned a pair of overalls and jumper,left his private car and took a seat on Looks Like Poor Inspection. A serious wreck recently occurred toa limited train on one of our trunk train was derailed on an embank-ment and plunged down the side about20 ft. Fortunately no one was killed. A press dispatch giving details of theaffair, says the cause of the occurrencewas that the auxiliary reservoir underthe cab fell onto the track at a switchand fouled the front wheels of the ten-der, with the result that the train wentover the embankment. If this account is true, it looks as ifpoor inspection and neglect had beentlie primary cause of the run off. It ishardly reasonable to suppose that all thebolts holding up the reservoir were inthoroughly good condition, and that they. NORTON GRINDING MACHINE, EXTRA SIZE. a sliding shipper traversing an inclinedguide. The cone pulley has eight steps andas two speeds are provided, this givessixteen speeds of rotation. The slid-ing ways of this machine are lubricatedby oil rollers or small wheels in pock-ets. The grinder wheel spindle and bear-ings are the same as those used onother machines (18x96 ins.) made bythe company. The slide rests are oneflat and one V-shaped groove. Thegreat width of the ways smoothly car-ries the 1,400 lbs. of the slide, and thegrinder gear, and at the same time in-sures perfect lubrication. There is aswivel table for grinding tapers up toi^ ins. per foot. It is similar tothose used on other Norton grinders. The head and tail stocks togetherweigh about 400 lbs. There are sevenuniversal and plain steady rests usedon this machine. There is a centergrinder supplied with this tool whichis
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