. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iesworked diligently to get new quip-nient so as to be in shape to take care of ually pushed out of use by mechanicaltraction. There is a strong racing elementin the blood of the people of nearly allnations. They strive to shorten the timeof travel between given points, but morellian that, they delight m rapid people will wait and lose an hourto go with a fast train. They cannot ex-plain why they do this, but it is just theirenjoyment of rapid motion. Expresstrains, steamboats, ya
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iesworked diligently to get new quip-nient so as to be in shape to take care of ually pushed out of use by mechanicaltraction. There is a strong racing elementin the blood of the people of nearly allnations. They strive to shorten the timeof travel between given points, but morellian that, they delight m rapid people will wait and lose an hourto go with a fast train. They cannot ex-plain why they do this, but it is just theirenjoyment of rapid motion. Expresstrains, steamboats, yachts, horses and au-tomobiles must all be fast to be is no use fighting against this tastefor speed, because it is in the blood. New Metal Brake Beam. A very simple but durable brake beam,designed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, M. E.,and handled by the Buffalo Brake BeamCompany, of 100 Broadway, New York,has been lately been put in active rail-way service. It consists of a 5 , with 3 in. flanges top and bot-tom. The beam is used on tender trucksand cars, and is intended for inside. VANDERBILT STEEL BRAKE BEAM. the California fruit crop without the as-sistance of the Armour cars, and so faras can be learned both succeeded. Some threats of retaliation on the partof the Armour people brought the rail-road companies to terms. Popular Liking for High Speed. The agitation which arises every fewyears in favor of having trains make therun between New York and Chicago at aspeed of sixty miles an hour is the ex-pression of a sentiment as old as humanlife, the desire to annihilate distance or toreduce the time needed in going fromplace to place to the lowest possible animals with well-developed powersof locomotion are natural racers, and mantakes the lead; but being beaten in fleet-ness by certain animals he has workedsteadily and intelligently to develop thespeed of the horse, which is the fleetestanimal that runs. The horse can be made to run wonder-fully fas
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