. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ce of brass wire about Y% ins. longon each leg, then shape ends the sameas an ordinary pair of calipers. Themagnetism will have no effect on thebrass ends and a perfect fit can beeasily made. The illustration shown by our con-temporary is that of a neat little L. (Athol, Mass.) spring caliperswith thumb-nut adjustment with theends formed of brass soldered on asdescribed. volving handle. This blue print is very plain and is simply this: When not inuse the handles are held in verticl
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ce of brass wire about Y% ins. longon each leg, then shape ends the sameas an ordinary pair of calipers. Themagnetism will have no effect on thebrass ends and a perfect fit can beeasily made. The illustration shown by our con-temporary is that of a neat little L. (Athol, Mass.) spring caliperswith thumb-nut adjustment with theends formed of brass soldered on asdescribed. volving handle. This blue print is very plain and is simply this: When not inuse the handles are held in verticleposition, as shown by coil springs whichremain in that position while runningthe screw up, and when leverage iswanted the handles are pulTed down,which gives full leverage. Chas. Markel,Clinton, la. Shop Foretraan. Safety in Chicago & Northwestern Rail-way are putting forth every effort toprevent accidents to shop employes andthe blue print I send you shows howthe chairman of our shop committee,Mr .Walter Shaw, has overcome thedanger of the screw-press handle from Valve \ Reducing Cost of Train Moving. The claims of agitators that railroadcompanies might effect immense savingsin operating expenses by adopting im-proved methods of performing worktake no account of the fact that by theintroduction of the mo6t perfected mo-tive power and rolling stock railroadcompanies have reduced the cost of mov-ing freight and passengers far below thecost of doing the work on the railwaysof all other countries. That, too, in spiteof the fact that the wages paid to Amer-ican railroad employees is about doublethe wages paid in other countries. Thegreat mistake made by our railroad com-panies was in the lowering of ratecharges to accord with the cost of mov-ing trains. It may turn out that the in-troduction of powerful consolidation lo-comotives and of MalTett double end!compounds with their enormous tram-hauling capacity has been a mistaken)move on the part of our railroad
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