. American engineer and railroad journal . iron and steel axles of ibout 18,000and pounds respectively, and for Iron and steel crankpins, and pounds respectively. From the table itwill be seen that the fiber stress in the Lake Shore axles andcrank pin are very close to the best practice while those ofthe English engine are high. Mr. Thomas Tait. General Manager of the Canadian Pa-cific, has no misgivings concerning the recent adoption ofyellow as a color for distant signal lights on that recently wrote about this important step as follows: Wehave adopted the Nels
. American engineer and railroad journal . iron and steel axles of ibout 18,000and pounds respectively, and for Iron and steel crankpins, and pounds respectively. From the table itwill be seen that the fiber stress in the Lake Shore axles andcrank pin are very close to the best practice while those ofthe English engine are high. Mr. Thomas Tait. General Manager of the Canadian Pa-cific, has no misgivings concerning the recent adoption ofyellow as a color for distant signal lights on that recently wrote about this important step as follows: Wehave adopted the Nels yellow (which I think should be calledthe Baird yellow) as our standard color for caution, and allof our interlocking plants are now equipped with it andit is giving great satisfaction. Mr. John C. Baird. who wasthe originator of this glass, informs us that the CanadianPacific will use green for all clear or proceed signal, andthat a new classification color for locomotive lamps will beadopted. 68 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD A Sueet Transformed into a Shop by an Electric Crane, Baldwin Locomotive Built by Wm. SeMers & Co. A VALUABLE CRANE.—BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, The devices and equipment for handling materials generallyreflects the real prosperity of manufacturing establishments,and particularly those requiring the movement of heavy electric traveling crane has had a revolutionary effectupon shop design and arrangement, and in the developmentof rapid work for which this country has become famous. Agood example of what cranes will do may be seen at theBaldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. Cranes, adaptedfor the special requirements of each department are contribut-ing in a very important way to the enormous productivecapacity of this plant, the works as now equipped being anexcellent place to study the problem of moving heavy weightsand using space advantageously. The cranes are the product of Wm. Sellers & Co., and bymeans of the ph
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