. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ight 1 Ittves titled with train June .to. 1895, was [6,712, OUt of a total 0120,012 freight locomotives. The increasein freight locomotives fitted with trainbrakes during the year covered by the re-port is 729, being 717 in excess of the in-crease in locomotives. The number ofpassenger locomotives fitted with auto-matic couplers on June 30, 1895, was 3,893,being an increase of 414 over the pri mous year. By comparison with the num- ,1 total 01 1,196,119 ca to tlx- ii eight - I rvice, both lo 10 be
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ight 1 Ittves titled with train June .to. 1895, was [6,712, OUt of a total 0120,012 freight locomotives. The increasein freight locomotives fitted with trainbrakes during the year covered by the re-port is 729, being 717 in excess of the in-crease in locomotives. The number ofpassenger locomotives fitted with auto-matic couplers on June 30, 1895, was 3,893,being an increase of 414 over the pri mous year. By comparison with the num- ,1 total 01 1,196,119 ca to tlx- ii eight - I rvice, both lo 10 be fairly well equipped with automatic ap- to bethe freight service. @ $ $ Caledonian Suburban locomotive here illustrated i of a class recently designed by Mr. JohnF. Mcintosh, lo juperintendent ,,i 1],. 1 ,,;. Railway, for handling the suburban traffic 111 and around the cityof Glasgow The trains handled are simi-lar in weight to the trains pulled on ourelevated railways, and this new engine doestin- work very satisfactorily. It is muchsmaller than the locomotives usually em-. the previous year. These figures showincreased economy in the transportion offreight. The same result is shown by thefact that 1,717 freight cars were requiredto move 1,000,000 tons of freight in 1895as against 1,888 in 1894; but. as alreadypointed out, these figures are not satis-factory, because so large a portion offreight is moved in cars not owned byrailway corporations,and consequently notincluded in the basis of these computations. Out of a total of 1,306,260, only 362,498locomotives and cars were fitted withtrain brakes, and with automaticcouplers. The increase in equipmentfitted with train brakes during the yearcovered by the report was 31,506. and theincrease in equipment fitted with auto-matic couplers was While thesefigures are considerable in themselves,they do not indicate a rate of improve-ment which will satisfy the conditions ofthe law. The number of passenger lo
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