. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . -Ig with the valve motion of he Michigan Central Railroad run-ning from Chicago eastward skirts the!ion of the great inland sea. The roadand rolling ick are in splendid con-dition. I he repair shops at Michigan Cityare among the oldest on the Continent,but in the matter of appliances they havekepi pace with the times. A stationaryengine of the date of 1848 is still doingexcelli It is furnished with a valve gearing having a strong resemblanceto the Alfree Hubbell variety. Mr. E
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . -Ig with the valve motion of he Michigan Central Railroad run-ning from Chicago eastward skirts the!ion of the great inland sea. The roadand rolling ick are in splendid con-dition. I he repair shops at Michigan Cityare among the oldest on the Continent,but in the matter of appliances they havekepi pace with the times. A stationaryengine of the date of 1848 is still doingexcelli It is furnished with a valve gearing having a strong resemblanceto the Alfree Hubbell variety. Mr. E , M. M , spoke in the warmest wayird to the performances of a num-ber of in thecompan ice. He claimed that therecords of expenses showed that in runsof 1,000 miles the cross compibe run at 10 cents per mile as against[6 ents in the case of simple loconvOn the question of the adoption < f theWalschaerts valve gear on the larger classof locomotives, Mr. Webb spoke very con-servatively in favor of the Stephensongearing, the increase in the valve openingin the latter type being an important factor. Rl PAIR MIOPS AT USAK05, OTAVI RAILWAY. X. V., and they continue till he reachesChicago. Everybody there seems agreedthat they are an exact hour behind NewYork in the matter of time, but theyclaim to be ahead in everything else. Thismixture of time is a disturbing element toall except those in the employ of city de-partments, who prefer to begin work onChicago time and drop off at Xew Yorktime, and so have a hour more to them-selves. Of course there is no such thingas the correct time anywhere. We are all in its favor, as against the fixed lead ofWalschaerts invention. Mr. Webb ad-mitted that the accessibility of the newtype of gearing made up for some of itsorganic defects. Both Mr. Webb and W. Coles, the gentlemanly chief clerk,spoke in the warmest terms of the educa-tional work of Railway and LocomotiveEngineering and of its great and growingpopularity among the men of the
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