. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . daymorning, May 25, 1915, and continuingduring May 26, 27 and 28. Mr. Harry , secretary, 95 Liberty street, NewYork, has issued a special announcementto the officers and members in regard tothe subjects to be brought before the com-mittee, and copies may be had on appli-cation. The proceedings promise to bemore than usually interesting. Difficulties of Exact Measurements. A well-known superintendent of motivepower who uses driving wheel centers 02inches diameter once made this stateme
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . daymorning, May 25, 1915, and continuingduring May 26, 27 and 28. Mr. Harry , secretary, 95 Liberty street, NewYork, has issued a special announcementto the officers and members in regard tothe subjects to be brought before the com-mittee, and copies may be had on appli-cation. The proceedings promise to bemore than usually interesting. Difficulties of Exact Measurements. A well-known superintendent of motivepower who uses driving wheel centers 02inches diameter once made this statement:It would not do for all of us to go towork and make gauges of 62 inches, andbore out the wheels by them, or turn ourwheel centers by them, for no two mencan take the same rule or measuring ma-chine and measure 62 inches and get themeasurements alike. The two men willvary enough to make it fatal to the prac-tice of uniformity. Unless we secure ab-solute uniformity we cannot get our tiremanufacturers i bore tires that will heabsolutely uniform. April, 1915. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 141. I always thought/1 saidOld Jerry as he sniffed atthe particularly bad odorof a salesmans cigar,that nothin was as rankas the stuff some roadsuse on the front ends oftheir used to gag some ofthe boys, continuedJerry,the first day it wasput on and, believe me,those days came thickand fast. The blamedstuff burnt off almost assoon as it was put , I never had anytrouble on Old 689. Ialways used a DixonGraphite preparation—some of the boys likes anatural gray and some ablack finish and some likes apowder and others a paste—Dixon makes em all. Sweetand clean and always lastedfrom six to nine you can get a testinsample. Write as I did andask for folder and free sampleNo. 69. Joseph Dixon Crucible Company RAILROAD NOTES. The Maine Central is reported inmarket for locomotive tenders. th< The Boston & Maine is reported in themarket for 3,000 undernames. The
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