. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . is really a center in itself;limited it may be in magnitude, butaltogether a model of enlightenment inthe spirit that actuates the people ofColorado and makes a visit to thisQueen City of the West something de-lightful to remember. THE UNION PACIFIC SHOPS. At Pullman, on the outskirts of Den-ver, the Union Pacific Railroad have aroundhouse of 50 stalls. The propor-tions of this building are so vast thatthe great locomotives look small in I. A. Turtle, the master mechanic,has had consid
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . is really a center in itself;limited it may be in magnitude, butaltogether a model of enlightenment inthe spirit that actuates the people ofColorado and makes a visit to thisQueen City of the West something de-lightful to remember. THE UNION PACIFIC SHOPS. At Pullman, on the outskirts of Den-ver, the Union Pacific Railroad have aroundhouse of 50 stalls. The propor-tions of this building are so vast thatthe great locomotives look small in I. A. Turtle, the master mechanic,has had considerable experience in theCompanys service, and was recentlytransferred from Omaha to this point. BRAZING FORGE. COLORADO &SOUTHERN. In the machine shops the engines un-dergoing repairs are turned out in tenor twelve days. Of these there areabout five per month, and although themachinery is not of the newest, theaccommodations are of the amplest andMr. Turtle is rapidly introducing newmethods. Some trouble is experiencedwith the varieties of water used in theboilers. Every known device has been. ONEILLS RAPID FLUE WELDER. tried in treating the water, but at thebest it is not uncommon to have toreplace an entire set of flues once ayear. Some progress has been madeand it is ascribed to the fact that a sys-tem has been devised of filling the 542 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING December, 1908. boiler with hot water, so that exceptduring special repair the boilers arenever allowed to cool. Four of the new gasoline motor carsused on the Union Pacific are kept inrepair at the Denver shops. Theirconstruction has been already fully de-scribed in the pages of Railway and Lo-comotive Engineering, but too muchcannot be said of the elegant equipmentof these cars. There is accommodationfor nearly 100 passengers, and there isno question of tlieir adaptability to theservice required in a thinly populatedcountry where the running of regulartrains is necessarily at intervals ofmany hours. Forty
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