. Railway master mechanic . ward ; c. a metal trough runnin;; tlio loiigtli of llic car, andOi in. wide, the trough heing covered by ;i perforatedmetal plate, laid in comparatively short forcase in removing when necessary. The companyalready has 250 of these cars in service and lindsthem to meet admirably every retiuirement. Thecars are loaded about half of their height, and thenhay and ice are tilled in on top. The drainage andrefrigeration have been found perfectly satisfactory,and by the careful construction and treatment of theinterior finish there has been no dete
. Railway master mechanic . ward ; c. a metal trough runnin;; tlio loiigtli of llic car, andOi in. wide, the trough heing covered by ;i perforatedmetal plate, laid in comparatively short forcase in removing when necessary. The companyalready has 250 of these cars in service and lindsthem to meet admirably every retiuirement. Thecars are loaded about half of their height, and thenhay and ice are tilled in on top. The drainage andrefrigeration have been found perfectly satisfactory,and by the careful construction and treatment of theinterior finish there has been no deterioration ofaccount from rotting. These cars are fitted with theWestinghouse air brake, the Chicago vertical planecoupler, and a new draw bar attachment, both ofwhich latter devices were designed at the North-western shops. Mr. Schroyer, siiperintendent cardepartment of the road, has also tinder way 250 50,-000 lb. Hat cars which are also fitted with the Chi-cago vertical plane coupler and the draw bar rig-ging referred wich, the Croydon (atmospheric), the Blackwall(rope), etc. All the various locomotive superintendents of thatday having had the experience to study of the threeparent lines—the Stockton & Darlington, the Clar-ence, and the Liverpool & Manchester—it was notstrange that many variations shoujd be introduced,which it would be impossible to describe in detail insuch an address as this. Sufficient to say that some,like Bury, adopted four-wheeled engines with insidecylinders: some like -Alexander Allan, .lohn V.(Jooch, and lrancis Trevithick, adopted outsidecplinders; some had small drivers, and some hadlargo; but all of them adopted, like Allan, singledrivers for ptissenger trains, and for many years alladopted four wheels coupled for goods. W<: have now arrived at 1S41 to 1S42, when rail-rays had assumed proportions never dreamt of bythe early pioneers and engineers, and the work wasdone by ditTeront types of engines, according to theideas of the differen
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