. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the standardknuckle contour. In cases that may chance to occur wherethis knuckle cannot be applied to a couplerso as to work, that shown in Fig. 2 hasbeen devised with a knuckle whose func-tions are simply that of a buffer to save thecoupler from injury until a repair point LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. to have every engineand caboose equippedwith them, an order for which has beenplaced. December, iS The Boston & Albany have been sprink-ling their roadbed with oil for the pur-pose of laying the dust, which wor
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the standardknuckle contour. In cases that may chance to occur wherethis knuckle cannot be applied to a couplerso as to work, that shown in Fig. 2 hasbeen devised with a knuckle whose func-tions are simply that of a buffer to save thecoupler from injury until a repair point LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. to have every engineand caboose equippedwith them, an order for which has beenplaced. December, iS The Boston & Albany have been sprink-ling their roadbed with oil for the pur-pose of laying the dust, which works allright, and the roadbed at all times pre-sents a thoroughly neat and well-kept ap-pearance. But the question has anotherside, and that is, the odor, which is al-most unbearable, and it would seem, in ameasure, must be injurious to ones health. i i i The C. W. Hunt Company, of New-York, have recently issued three veryhandsome illustrated catalogs. One refersto Manila rope, one to apparatus for hand-ling coal and similar material, while thethird treats of industrial railways. We. Fig. J iocumotitc EnyltiecTing Fig. 2 EMERGENCY KNUCKLE. can be reached; the idea involved in theiruse being that one or the other of thesewill, if carried in the caboose, bridge overany case of break-in-two, and at less costthan with the regulation knuckle. The inventor, General Foreman Gil-man, of the Northern Pacific car depart-ment at Tacoma, is enthusiastic over thesaving in sight by a reduction of the num-ber of extra knuckles as now carried toprovide for emergencies on the road, andalso in the lessening of trains parting byreason of the link and pin stretching theair hose to rupture, besides the salvage ofthe coupler body after the knuckle isbroken. Mr. Gilman writes that he hastested every make of coupler passingthrough Tacoma yard in thetwelve monthspast, and has not found one having aknuckle pin hole to which this emer-gency knuckle will not apply, out of thirty-nine different builds of co
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