. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . THE THORXYCROlT STE.\.\( \V-\GOX. »*•. THE COULIHARD 4 TO 5-T0N LORRY. Unjust Blame of Break=ln-Twos. Many of the break-in-twos of trains onthe road are directly traceable to the roughhandling the cars receive while in switch-ing yards. The limited time usuallj al-lotted in terminal yards to switching andthe making up of trains ofttimes necessi-tates quick work and consequent roughhandling. Cars are bumped so hard to-gether that the draft rigging is fatallystrained and placed on the verge of
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . THE THORXYCROlT STE.\.\( \V-\GOX. »*•. THE COULIHARD 4 TO 5-T0N LORRY. Unjust Blame of Break=ln-Twos. Many of the break-in-twos of trains onthe road are directly traceable to the roughhandling the cars receive while in switch-ing yards. The limited time usuallj al-lotted in terminal yards to switching andthe making up of trains ofttimes necessi-tates quick work and consequent roughhandling. Cars are bumped so hard to-gether that the draft rigging is fatallystrained and placed on the verge of break-ing, and when subsequently given a muchlighter shock in a train on the road, the large crowd attending the annual Yale-Harvard foot-ball game in New November, 185 trains being handledinto the station in that city in one hour. The Crosby Steam Gage and ValveCompany, of Boston, have appointed MrThomas R, Freeman their agent in Chi-cago, with headquarters at 21 West Lakestreet. Mr. Freeman has been representa-tive of several railroad supply houses, andis well known to railroad purchaser- 62 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING February
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