. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nclination to repair worn-out parts isthe most expensive practice found in rail-road shops. Engine 387 gets a new setof axle boxes, while two of the old onesare in pretty fair condition. These arelaid away carefully under a vise bench tobe handy should any other engine of thesame class come in with a broken box. power of the cupola or forge. Goodmoney has been paid for tons of pig andbar-iron whose place ought to have beentaken by the scrap hidden away under thepretense of being available sto
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nclination to repair worn-out parts isthe most expensive practice found in rail-road shops. Engine 387 gets a new setof axle boxes, while two of the old onesare in pretty fair condition. These arelaid away carefully under a vise bench tobe handy should any other engine of thesame class come in with a broken box. power of the cupola or forge. Goodmoney has been paid for tons of pig andbar-iron whose place ought to have beentaken by the scrap hidden away under thepretense of being available stock. Stuffof that kind is never available whenwanted and its individuality is seen onlyat the annual resurrection caused by-stock-taking. A predilection for preserving half-worn articles is an inconvenient and ex-pensive habit; but a fondness for keep-ing articles whose pattern has beenchanged is infinitely worse. In this casecasting-house and store-rooms are lit-tered with pieces kept on hand becausethey have not been used and never will contain a faithful description of a shopvisited last NEWTON DIE SINKING MACHINE. A discarded eccentric strap taken off 421not more than ]% inch out of round islaid to repose in vicinity of the axle boxesand the adjacent space is occupied by anodd rod strap, several half-worn pistonrings, or an air pump head, a nozzle top,a few brake heads a sand box cover, afew oil cellars and a mass of promiscuouslitter considered too good for the scrapheap, where they eventually go after hav-ing been in the way for years, till the spacethey occupied overflowed. A shop rununder the influence of this kind of senti-ment is usually a museum of worn-outarticles, every recess and corner beingfilled with material that long ago ought tohave passed through the rejuvenating be used. A vague hope is entertainedthat rough forgings and castings willcome in handy for some purpose, butsuccessive stock-takings come and goand obsolete articles appear to repre-sent pl
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