. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. y by inferior waterways. The government of Nicaragua, whichowns and operates the railways in thecountry, has decided to use oil fuel ex-clusively in the locomotives. To pro-vide storage for the oil the governmenthas had erected at Corinto a steel tankwith a capacity of 1,554,000 gallons. The new Orleans, Mobile & Chicagohas ordered eight Mikado and four Pa-cific locomotives from the Baldwin Loco-motive Works. are presenting to our readers three en-gravings, illustrating the latest designof an all-steel passenger car, built bythe Pressed Steel Car Company f
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. y by inferior waterways. The government of Nicaragua, whichowns and operates the railways in thecountry, has decided to use oil fuel ex-clusively in the locomotives. To pro-vide storage for the oil the governmenthas had erected at Corinto a steel tankwith a capacity of 1,554,000 gallons. The new Orleans, Mobile & Chicagohas ordered eight Mikado and four Pa-cific locomotives from the Baldwin Loco-motive Works. are presenting to our readers three en-gravings, illustrating the latest designof an all-steel passenger car, built bythe Pressed Steel Car Company for thePennsylvania Railroad. All intelligent railway people are be-coming keenly interested in the con-ttructinn details of steel cars, a fact strength-producing details that havebeen so thoroughly tested and havenever been found wanting. It may be added that the number ofsteel cars under construction, and aboutto be constructed during the presentyear, exceeds that of any other two yearssince the construction of steel oars INTl l;niR VIEW OF C.\R FK.\Mlv which moves us to publish these illus-trations. \Ne can think of no illustra-tion calculated to be more instructivethan these to people interesting them-selves in the outlines and details ofsteel-car construction. During the past winter the all-steel ;ind a larger increasassured. the future seems The Monongahela has ordered six con-solidation locomotives from the AmericanLocomotive Company. The weight order will approach lbs. June. 1912, RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 203 Chemical Laboratory in Baggage Car. When boys or young men become in-fatuated with the study of chemistry, itfrequently carries them into very foolisliexperiments. The first work thatThomas A. Edison got to do was fillingthe position of train newsboy, known inthe west as the butcher. Thomas hadfallen into the habit of studying cliemis-try which could not be pursued to advan-tage without an experimental
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