. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . ted to thestop. The register adds only 55 tons in-stead of 60 tons; for a car weighing 30tons it adds tons. When the registershows 2,400 tons, if that be the rating ofthe engine, the train is complete, whetherits actual tonnage be 2,040 tons or 2,700tons. The drawbar pull in either case will bethe same. As this work can be done bythe yard clerk in a very few minutes, thesaving in tiine in dispatching a train isobvious. It may be added that roads that havebeen using this machine and method forthe past hve or six years are realizing asaving of from 5
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . ted to thestop. The register adds only 55 tons in-stead of 60 tons; for a car weighing 30tons it adds tons. When the registershows 2,400 tons, if that be the rating ofthe engine, the train is complete, whetherits actual tonnage be 2,040 tons or 2,700tons. The drawbar pull in either case will bethe same. As this work can be done bythe yard clerk in a very few minutes, thesaving in tiine in dispatching a train isobvious. It may be added that roads that havebeen using this machine and method forthe past hve or six years are realizing asaving of from 5 to 10 per cent, in theirtrain mileage items. On the Champaign-Chicago division of the Illinois CentralR. R. exact records of one machines per-formance was kept for a period of oneyear. It showed a saving of 10 per train mileage representing $30,000. Ogle Construction Ugle Construction Company. Chi-cago, III , are meeting with much successin their new designs of Balanced BucketType Coaling Stations of various capac-. right FIG. •| 11K the ring rotated to the until the stylus strikes a stop under theplate. The stylus is withdrawn and repeated as many times as thereare cars to add, the machine adding theequivalent Ifinnage each time ;ind showingon the register in the center the total ;r.\Xl).\HI> IHAIX RKS1ST.\XCE COMPUTER. ities which have been adapted to locationswhen till requirements were for one ormore tracks. Their designs have all beentested and in every instance fully irieettlie claims of the manufacturers. Our il-lustration of an all-steel coaling station February, 1913. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 81 shows a construction that is absolutelyfireproof. The entire superstructure issteel e.\cept the machinery house which
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