. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . square inch. Thefirebox is 78)^ inches long and 34 incheswide. In front it is 84 inches deep, and atthe back 83 inches. There are 246 2-inchtubes, n feet 8% inches long. The heat-ing surface is 1, square feet, of which1, square feet are in the tubes and148,8 square feet in the firebox. European Railway Jottings. BY CHAkI,F;S KOUS-MARTEN. It may perhaps be advisable that in this,my first letter of the new year, shouldoffer -\ brief recapitulation of some of theprincipal features of t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . square inch. Thefirebox is 78)^ inches long and 34 incheswide. In front it is 84 inches deep, and atthe back 83 inches. There are 246 2-inchtubes, n feet 8% inches long. The heat-ing surface is 1, square feet, of which1, square feet are in the tubes and148,8 square feet in the firebox. European Railway Jottings. BY CHAkI,F;S KOUS-MARTEN. It may perhaps be advisable that in this,my first letter of the new year, shouldoffer -\ brief recapitulation of some of theprincipal features of the past years loco-motive engineering in Great Britain, andmore briefly that of the European Conti-nent. On the whole, the year 1901 has not beenparticularly fertile in the production ofnovel types for express passenger most characteristic new departureshave been in respect of goods engines. Butalthough there may have been a lack ofstriking novelties in the case of Britishexpress engines in 1901, there has been aconsiderable output and development oftlie newest types already existing. On. BALDWIN EIGHT-WHEELER FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA. tives. Mrs. Baker, writing about the ar-ticle, says: Now. I dont doubt the old mans wordin the least when he says he made 31 milesin 30 minutes. I am nowhere near eighty-six yet, but I have some recollection ofwhat roadbeds and rails were, say, twenty-five years ago, and I venture to criticisethe aged story-teller on just one point. Hethinks hes alive, but he isnt. He waskilled in a railroad wreck at least sixty-five years ago. He should read Joaquin Miller, the poetof the Sierras who tells somewhere of anold miner who is relating his numerous thrilling escapes, theminer and his party are finally so sur-rounded with dangers that death seems in-evitable. A listener, overcome with sus-pense, asks, How did you escape?Didnt, answers the miner. Every lastone of us was killed. And I think that is what happened toall the en
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