. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ine ofrailways in South Africa, the entire lengthbeing 1,356 miles. The present extensionis 490 miles long, and has been built intwo and a half years. The line is 3 foot 6 inch gage, and islaid with 60-pound rails on steel are numerous bridges of varyingspans, fifteen of them being about 100feet. This will reduce the time of travel fromCapetown to Bulwayo from eight days toeighty hours, reduce the cost to aboutone-third of the former amount, and placesBulwayo within three weeks of London.
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ine ofrailways in South Africa, the entire lengthbeing 1,356 miles. The present extensionis 490 miles long, and has been built intwo and a half years. The line is 3 foot 6 inch gage, and islaid with 60-pound rails on steel are numerous bridges of varyingspans, fifteen of them being about 100feet. This will reduce the time of travel fromCapetown to Bulwayo from eight days toeighty hours, reduce the cost to aboutone-third of the former amount, and placesBulwayo within three weeks of London. An exciting item of news, which couldnot wait for mail transmission, has beenwired under the sea, to the effect thatDublin is going to indulge in electriccars. January, iSgS. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 41 Heisler Mountain Locomotive. The Heisler locomotive has been placedupon the market with a view of meeting igrowing demand for a strictly high-class are provided with extra oil pockets. Allthe journals of the motor-engines are ofbronze and adjustable tor wear; likewisethe cross-head HEISLEK MOUXTAIN LOCOMOTIVE. land and West Coast companies (London& North Western and Caledonian), how-ever, on learning the intention of theNorth Eastern management, immediatelycommenced building diningsaloons. The Midland Com-pany appear to have won thispeculiar race, for their carwas on the metals some timebefore the others were com-pleted. i © @ Long Hours on German Rail-roads. Railroad life in Germanyleaves a good deal to be de-sired. It is stated that out ofa total number of persons em-ployed on the State railways(274,264), one-third are onduty twelve hours daily. Near-ly 20,000 work thirteen hours;12,000 are employed fourteenhours, and nearly 5,000 work fif-teen hours, and a similar num- locomotive, which in design, workman-ship and material, is in no way inferior tothat of the standard direct connected en-gines common to American railroads; andone that has an exceedingly flexible wheel-
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