. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . looms up, surrounded in all directions bylever-loaded French engines. The enginewas evidently built for business and notfor show, which makes her compare un- October, 1900. favorably with the gaudily decorated andelaborately finished engines in the neigh-borhood. We illustrated this engine in tlieMarch number of Locomotive Engi-neering, so I need not give any particu-lars. This engine has been distinguishedby being the subject of a discussion in theFrench Chamber of Deputies. The en-gine was built for th
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . looms up, surrounded in all directions bylever-loaded French engines. The enginewas evidently built for business and notfor show, which makes her compare un- October, 1900. favorably with the gaudily decorated andelaborately finished engines in the neigh-borhood. We illustrated this engine in tlieMarch number of Locomotive Engi-neering, so I need not give any particu-lars. This engine has been distinguishedby being the subject of a discussion in theFrench Chamber of Deputies. The en-gine was built for the State Railways ofFrance, and was ordered by the Minister LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING type are becoming the favorite motor forall kinds of passenger service, and theyare advancing into favor for freight ser-vice also. The boilers are large, providingfrom 2,000 to 2,500 square feet of heatingsurface and about 25 square feet of gratearea. To obtain these dimensions the cen-ter of gravity is necessarily high—about8 feet 3 inches above the rail being anaverage. The Atlantic type of engine is. ITALIAN ADRIATIC RAILWAY—PARIS EXPOSITION. of Public Works after he was ordered notto purchase locomotives in a foreign coun-try. The presence of the engine in theFrench exhibit gave great offense to cer-tain deputies, and they assailed the respon-sible Minister about his unpatriotic of his defence reads droll to anAmerican who has examined the offend-ing engine. He said that the machine wasbuilt to improved designs of French engi-neers. The Baldwin engine was there-fore the outcome of French genius. Thisexplanation satisfied most of the deputies,but some of the irreconcilables wanted toknow why all the locomotives were notbuilt at home, and why, if it were neces-sary to exhibit a foreign locomotive, itwas not shown in the foreign section. TheMinister then replied that he was a loco-motive engineer himself and that the ob-jectors did not know what they were talk-ing about. The Bald
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