. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . per hour. Engine No. 10 ran her inevitable coursein life, first on an express, then on lightertrains, and ten years ago could havebeen seen daily running an accommoda-tion train out of Jersey City, being re-tired with her mates only about four orfive years ago. These engines were al-ways used between New York and Phila-delphia and Camden and Atlantic City,occasionally being sent as far as Wash-ington, but they never saw mountainservice. The present No. 10 is one of a verylarge class of Atlant
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . per hour. Engine No. 10 ran her inevitable coursein life, first on an express, then on lightertrains, and ten years ago could havebeen seen daily running an accommoda-tion train out of Jersey City, being re-tired with her mates only about four orfive years ago. These engines were al-ways used between New York and Phila-delphia and Camden and Atlantic City,occasionally being sent as far as Wash-ington, but they never saw mountainservice. The present No. 10 is one of a verylarge class of Atlantic type engines, andshe does her trick daily on the Pennsyl-vanias famous eighteen hour train toChicago, making the run from JerseyCity to North Philadelphia, 84 miles, in83 minutes by the time card. There areseveral classes of these Atlantics, diflfer-ing only in minor details, some having Total heating sur-face 1205 sq. ft. 2640 sq. ft. Grate area. 34 8/10 sq. ft 55 5/10 so. ft. Weight on drivers. 65,300 lbs. 112,000 lbs. Total weight lbs. 180,000 lbs. Brooklyn, N. Y. C. B. Chaney, Honor to Whom Honor. Editor: Referring to the article on page 96 ofyour March issue, Ingenious RepairWork. It seems to me there must besome mistake as to who the credit forthis method of repairing cracked cylin-ders is really due. Mr. G. L. Van Doren,superintendent of the Central Railroadof New Jersey shops at Elizabethport,N. J., worked this scheme up and appliedthe first one in February, 1907, before ourbrothers visit from Silvis shops to want to add that we have changed sixtyengines since that time. Therefore webelieve Mr. G. L. Van Doren should re-ceive the credit for priority. W. H. Hawkins,General Machine Foreman. Elizabethport, N. J. OLD LONG-LEGGED NO 10 ON THE PENNSYLVANL^. ing was dispensed with, and the dome andstack were very pleasing in their curvedand flowing outlines. Alligator cross-heads and two-bar guides, and sandboxplaced in the wheel covers, made theirappeara
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