. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ers con-cerning the amount of grate area of alocomotive required to generate steamfor every horsepower developed. Astatement was once made at a railwayclub meeting that certain locomotiveswere capable of developing one horse-power for each square foot of gratearea. That statement was contradictedby Dr. Goss who insisted that it requiredfrom one and a half to two feet of gratearea to generate steam for one horse-power. As the experience of Dr. Gosshas been mostly with experimental loco-motives
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ers con-cerning the amount of grate area of alocomotive required to generate steamfor every horsepower developed. Astatement was once made at a railwayclub meeting that certain locomotiveswere capable of developing one horse-power for each square foot of gratearea. That statement was contradictedby Dr. Goss who insisted that it requiredfrom one and a half to two feet of gratearea to generate steam for one horse-power. As the experience of Dr. Gosshas been mostly with experimental loco-motives operating on a stationary plantthe data obtained may be writer has indicated a locomotivewith square feet of grate area whichdeveloped 1,120 horsepower. In all things throughout the world, the men who look for the crooked will see the crooked, and the men who look forthe straight will see the straight. The maxim on which I have acted andthe maxim which I have often commendedto my friends is—Be a boy as long as youcan. No man would feel himselfdid not have adversaries. if he. CTSJHgSB When one is very young, and when oneis very old, one prefers books to people:before you know much of life, and afteryou know it all. Ifman- ,-ou want things done, call a busy-the man of leisure has no time. VALVES WILL STOP THOSE COSTLY LEAKS ON ROUNDHOUSEBLOWERS HOT WATER WASHOUT LINES With the enormous cost offuel there are few companiesthat can afford leaky valves. We specialize for RAIL-ROADS and GUARANTEEservice. ITS EASYASK US ABOUT IT OMALLEY-BEARE VALVE CO. RAILWAY EXCHANGECHICAGO U. S. A. R;&»Wneerin8 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances y«l xxv. 114 Uberty Street, New York, September, 1912. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The history of the Baltimore & OhioRailroad is in many respects the historyof railroading in America. True, it wasnot the first railroad built in was preceded by a railroad three milesin length at the
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