. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . condi-tion to carry its load, because the surfaceis practically burnished, and is condensedsimilarly to cold-rolled steel, all minuteflaws being closed. The best tribute tothe little roller is the wide use it is havingamong the more progressive shops, wherethey have long outgrown the file, andwhere coarse feeds are the order. i i i Interior of a Third-Class Car. Our illustration of the interior of athird-class car built for the Ferro CafrilMerida a Peto, a road in South America,is a good example of cars
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . condi-tion to carry its load, because the surfaceis practically burnished, and is condensedsimilarly to cold-rolled steel, all minuteflaws being closed. The best tribute tothe little roller is the wide use it is havingamong the more progressive shops, wherethey have long outgrown the file, andwhere coarse feeds are the order. i i i Interior of a Third-Class Car. Our illustration of the interior of athird-class car built for the Ferro CafrilMerida a Peto, a road in South America,is a good example of cars of that class,and conveys the idea of a peoples povertymore eloquently than words. The seats,without backs or upholstering of even themost primitive kind, have an uninvitingappearance to us who are wont to asso-ciate the word luxury with travel. It would be the height of absurdity tosay anything about finish; there is ab-solutely none. Hard wood and hard linesare all that can be seen in the picture; butthese are toned down when brought underthe influence of the flickering light of the. ()\ .sWIClJlSli SI ATI. RAILWAYS. Combination Car of the Swedish StateRailways. The illustration, as implied in the cap-tion, is a foreigner, a combined secondand third class car, and is of the side-corridor type with end doors, a construc-tion which is practically American, andwhich is surely replacing the old side-doorstyle of car. In fact, the car would notexcite comment if placed in an .\merican chine shop. It has an equipment for do-ing the work at the least expense, consist-ing of a lye vat 32 feet long and 3 feetdeep, having a capacity for holding theparts from all engines stripped at onetime. Above the vat, and extending across theroom, is a gallows frame, from which issuspended an air cylinder, rolling on afour-wheeled carriage, and carrying a huge LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 901 table on which ihe dirty parts are sub-merged and removed from the vat. Hotand cold water are at hand to complete
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