. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ely finished. It is pumped by com-pressed air, a pressure of 220 pounds be-ing necessary. Mr. James CoIIinson, supermtendent ofmachinery is very particular about theneat and orderly appearance of everything 141 daily sheets being made out. Trains areall made up by the tonnage rating; in thecase of double-headers the number of tonseach would draw singly is added togetherfor the double train. On some roads thetonnage the two engines would draw inone train is somewhat less than the ton-nage they would handl
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ely finished. It is pumped by com-pressed air, a pressure of 220 pounds be-ing necessary. Mr. James CoIIinson, supermtendent ofmachinery is very particular about theneat and orderly appearance of everything 141 daily sheets being made out. Trains areall made up by the tonnage rating; in thecase of double-headers the number of tonseach would draw singly is added togetherfor the double train. On some roads thetonnage the two engines would draw inone train is somewhat less than the ton-nage they would handle in two trains. In the way of betterments to tlie trackthe grades have been cut down, so that insome places where a 17 x 24-inch engineformerly handled only 380 tons the loadIS now 1,100 tons. In many places the oldline has been abandoned and a new onelaid out which is shorter and better inevery way. Some of the hills have beencut down and the material used to fill thehollows, so that the grades are very the improvements now under wayare completed, the average train load can. Photo by A. II. & ALBANY AND NEW HAVEN 9 A. M. TRAINS LEAVING NEW SOUTH STATION, BOSTON, MASS. in the entire plant. In the machine shopwe noticed a space marked out on the floorbetween the machines, and all material waskept inside those lines. About 170 enginesare in service on this part of the are pooled, and a fair share of thefreight trains are double-headed. Thesystem of looking after the engines in theshop is very complete. An inspector isemployed who inspects the engines, in ad-dition to the reports made by the engi-neers. This same inspector also looks outto see that the work is done, and keeps arecord of all hot boxes, and, if possible tofind out, the cause of their getting hot,condition of packing, etc. All the rec-ords of work done by the engines whilein train service are kept in ton-miles, andIt IS a very satisfactory way of locatingthe earning power of
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