. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o confer acourtesy, send them thisbook as a Christmaspresent. It costs Fivedollars, being less thana box of good cigars anddoes not go up in smoke. Angus SinclairCompany 136 Liberty Street,New York, N. Y. Greece an agitation is going on toovercome the difliculty of expensivegasolene by sulsstituting a cheap formof alcohol distilled from currants,which is a crop chronically sufferingfrom overproduction. Hard Work Well Done. If we may judge from several veryoutspoken expressions of opinion whic
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o confer acourtesy, send them thisbook as a Christmaspresent. It costs Fivedollars, being less thana box of good cigars anddoes not go up in smoke. Angus SinclairCompany 136 Liberty Street,New York, N. Y. Greece an agitation is going on toovercome the difliculty of expensivegasolene by sulsstituting a cheap formof alcohol distilled from currants,which is a crop chronically sufferingfrom overproduction. Hard Work Well Done. If we may judge from several veryoutspoken expressions of opinion whichliave come to our knowledge we would•^ay that the King-Lawson dump carshave Ijcen giving some excellent ser-\ice of a very hard and exacting natureand liavc stood up to the work withoutcosting much for maintenance. TheLackawanna have been using these carslor the past two years in all classes work and earth excavation andwhat is liarder still, tunnel rock excava-tion material has been most successfullyliandled. A contracting firm testifies to thefact tliat these cars stood on the track. KING-LAWSON DUMP C.\R. which liad one rail elevated and .dumpedmaterial to the high side far enoughaway from the rail to do away with thenecessity of rehandling. Another firmi)f contractors in railway work refer tothe fact that the King-Lawson carsdump material quickly and this is im-portant as on a busy road they cannothold the main line longer than aboutfifteen minutes and they are pleasedwith the fact that after the material hasbeen dumped it does not have to bemoved or leveled for other trains toI)ass. The air dumping mechanismworked without giving any trouble. The kind of work done by these steeldump cars indicates that they were notengaged in any show parade or exhibi-tion game. They were not mollycod-dled in any way but were put into hardservice where the rapid and expedi-tious removal of rough material wasthe only thing thought of by those en-gaged in the work. The cars did w
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