. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he cylinder and reservoir and placethe gasket there with white lead, and thebolts well tightened. I will assure you. sir, that a gasket so placed will stay thereas long as the car lasts. To repair a carlike that in a train takes time, and toswitch said car out of train also takestime, and the time is money lost, andcauses delay to shippers. H. A. Josephs,Car Inspector, So. Angeles, Cal. Hewing to the Line. Editor: I see on page 464 of R.\il\v.\y Engineering that A. F.


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he cylinder and reservoir and placethe gasket there with white lead, and thebolts well tightened. I will assure you. sir, that a gasket so placed will stay thereas long as the car lasts. To repair a carlike that in a train takes time, and toswitch said car out of train also takestime, and the time is money lost, andcauses delay to shippers. H. A. Josephs,Car Inspector, So. Angeles, Cal. Hewing to the Line. Editor: I see on page 464 of R.\il\v.\y Engineering that A. F. Smith,of Cumberland Valley Railroad, inventedthe first locomotive blower in 1S52 andapplied it to engine Novelty. I wouldcall your attention to engine Gowan &Marks, on page 148 in the Developmentof the Locomotive Engine, by AngusSinclair; also to A. L. HoUeys Ameri-can and European Railway Practice, page113, under head of the steam jet, usedby Gray and Chanter in 1837 on the Liv-erpool and Manchester Railway. I amfor hewing to the line, let chips fallwlicre they may. Knocker. Philadelphia, FK;. 2. ST. LOIIS SECIIOX OF 21. Some of the Penseys : Enclosed is my subscription for R.\il-w.^Y AND Locomotive Engineering forthis year. I am sending you under sepa-rate cover some photographs, but I do notknow whether any of them are goodenough for copy or not. They are asfollows: Fig. I is the Pennsylvanias , Limited, train No. 27. In Fig. 2is shown the St. Louis section of the express train No. 21 onthe Pennsylvania. Fig. 3 is Express on the same road. Fig. 4 is the Cin-cinnati section of train No. 21. The S, is a very important piece of rail-road equipment. Fig. 5 shows the Penn-sylvanias pay car with a standard 4-4-0engine in front. Fig. 6 is train No. these photographs were taken nearXenia, Ohio. J. Dean. Joes, Ohio. time, after twenty-seven days sail, which,though pleasant in a way, grew tiresome


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