. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s as ifin a few hours there will be a muscularhand at the throttle and the leviathanwill be away to seek its fortune. The things that you see anywhereelse in twos and threes are here byhundreds. Here are rows and rows ofniacliines sawing and cutting and drill-ing and grinding and polishing andsinging their lullabies away into infini-tude. Machines seem to be doing al- will become of him if ever he leavesBaldwins? There is a crown for us allsomewhere. If you wish to work onlocomotives, get a j
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s as ifin a few hours there will be a muscularhand at the throttle and the leviathanwill be away to seek its fortune. The things that you see anywhereelse in twos and threes are here byhundreds. Here are rows and rows ofniacliines sawing and cutting and drill-ing and grinding and polishing andsinging their lullabies away into infini-tude. Machines seem to be doing al- will become of him if ever he leavesBaldwins? There is a crown for us allsomewhere. If you wish to work onlocomotives, get a job in perfect design is before you in theperfection of mechanical drawing, andduplicate that in steel, and stick to yourwork, and you need fear no period ofidleness, for the voices of the nationsare calling to Baldwins for more loco-motives, and the volume of work deep-ens and broadens as the waters of theDelaware deepen ami widen toward thedistant sea. Rapid Fluesheet Cutter. At the Brightwood shops of the BigFour, which are presided over by M. Lawler, master mechanic, there is. FIG. 1 ADJUSTABLE FLUESHEET CUTTER. most everything. Among the thou-sands of skilled artisans that we havealready passed only one seems to be atwork in the old-fashioned way. He ischipping a saddle, cutting deep groovesinto it, his hammer swinging rhythmic-ally, his eyes intent on his work. Outin the open, what had once been astreet, is piled with engine frameshigher than a three-story house. Therecomes a traveling crane, and two ofthe frames are gone at one weird contrasts there are, as youproceed from floor to floor and fromgallery to gallery! It is but a few stepsfrom the vast Dantes Inferno of ablacksmiths shop to the shining splen-dors of the finished work of the linkand rod men. Here are e-xamples ofthe crowning contrivance of EgideWalschaert, the forgotten inventor wholived before his time. His slim eccen-tric rod and spider-like crosshead at-tachment, that moved wi
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