. American engineer and railroad journal . and Lines. Accidents on Railways.—It is true in the last year, wherefull returns are available, that 418 passengers were killed onAmerican railroads; it is, however, equally true that we carried815,778,700 passengers who were not killed. There were 11,185passengers injured in the same period, 6,778 in train accidents;but again 815,762,933 passengers were carried a little over25,000,000,000 miles without injury. With these figures I willleave you to the privilege of finding out how many times andhow far you can ride on our trains without endangering yo
. American engineer and railroad journal . and Lines. Accidents on Railways.—It is true in the last year, wherefull returns are available, that 418 passengers were killed onAmerican railroads; it is, however, equally true that we carried815,778,700 passengers who were not killed. There were 11,185passengers injured in the same period, 6,778 in train accidents;but again 815,762,933 passengers were carried a little over25,000,000,000 miles without injury. With these figures I willleave you to the privilege of finding out how many times andhow far you can ride on our trains without endangering yourlife or limb.—C. E. Lee, Genl. Supt., B. & M., before the ATeivEngland Railroad Club. Wood for Paper.—The amount of wood consumed in thiscountry for pulp for paper has increased from 2 million to 31;million cords per year, since 1899. Spruce is the best wood andfurnishes about 70 per cent, of the pulp used. The total valueof the wood consumed for this purpose in 1906 was $26,400,000. 260 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD POWER REVERSING GEAR ON MALLET COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVE—GT. NORTHERN A POWER REVERSING GEAR. The Mallet type locomotive requiring, as it does, two com-plete sets of valve gear makes some sort of a power reversinggear practically compulsory. Several different designs of mech-anism for this purpose have been illustrated in the columns ofthis journal, among which was one, known as the MCarroll(October, 1906, page 375), applied to the very large locomotivesbuilt in 1906, by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, for the GreatNorthern Railway. Recently a much simpler machine for per-forming the same work has been designed by the builders andapplied to one of these locomotives. It, in general, follows adesign which has been very extensively used on marine enginesfor the same purpose. While railroad and marine service differ 111 mam ways, there would seem to be no important reason whytins type of reversing gear could not be made to perform as sat-isfactor
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