. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ndent of motivepower of the Chicago, Milwaukee & regarding the performance of theengine on that road was published inthe November, 1907, issue of Rail-way and Locomotive the failure of the James Tole-man to perform properly on the C,M. & St. P., the officials presented theengine to the Purdue museum. An-other weak point about the locomotivewas the fact that it was very muchmore rigid than the American locomo-tive. Much trouble was experienced indelivering the engine,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ndent of motivepower of the Chicago, Milwaukee & regarding the performance of theengine on that road was published inthe November, 1907, issue of Rail-way and Locomotive the failure of the James Tole-man to perform properly on the C,M. & St. P., the officials presented theengine to the Purdue museum. An-other weak point about the locomotivewas the fact that it was very muchmore rigid than the American locomo-tive. Much trouble was experienced indelivering the engine, as it left thetrack repeatedly, when it encounteredsome of the numerous curves of thePurdue switch. Besides the locomotives, the museumcontains several other features. One ofthese is an early coach of the Boston& Providence Railroad, Fig. 10. Itwas built in 1834, and was at one timedrawn by horses between Dedham andReadville, Mass. It ran for a longtime between Boston and are also in the museum a full-sized smokebox and cylinder casting ofa Richmond compound, a full-sized. FIG. 9. THE JAMES TOLMAN. sectional model of a piston-valve, ex-hibited by the American LocomotiveCompany at the St. Louis Exposition;an old walking-beam steam engine,several types of car trucks, severalforms of old rails and ties, and numer-ous other small articles of historicalvalue. The collection is at present housedin a large temporary wooden building,but it is hoped that, in the near future,a suitable building will be provided. Correction does much, but encourage-ment does more. Encouragement aftercensure is as the sun after a shower.—Goethe. June, 1908. RAILWAY AND I AG 261 Items of Personal Interest M. M. and M. C. B. month we have the pleasure ofpresenting the portraits of the officers of
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