. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . stion before Congress it seems torailway men here as though Depewsservices could be of the highest valueif he were to remain in the of his business career he has madelittle publicity, and it is only the great-er men of railway affairs who under-stand it. The boiler is an extension wagontop with radial staying for the crownsheet. The smoke box course is 64 diameter. The fire box has a gratearea of 46H sq. ft. It is 102 ins. longby 66 ins. wide. The heating surfacein the fire
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . stion before Congress it seems torailway men here as though Depewsservices could be of the highest valueif he were to remain in the of his business career he has madelittle publicity, and it is only the great-er men of railway affairs who under-stand it. The boiler is an extension wagontop with radial staying for the crownsheet. The smoke box course is 64 diameter. The fire box has a gratearea of 46H sq. ft. It is 102 ins. longby 66 ins. wide. The heating surfacein the fire box amounts to sq ft.,that of the flues is 2, sq. ft., makinga total of sq. ft. The flues in number. 2 ins. diameter, and 13ft. long. The taper course is the sec-ond one, it slopes up to the waist,which is about 74^:1 ins. This givesgood steam space, and as the backsheet is perpendicular the maximum ca-pacity is secured. The tender trucks are of the arch-bar type with composite bolsters rest-ing on eliptic springs with 33 in. underframe is made of lo-in. steel. IV H, reck, Master Mechanic. estimate of Senator Depew: When theJoint Traffic Association was organizedDepew was unanimously chosen as itspresident. It was an extraordinarybody of men who gathered around thetable at the head of which Mr. Depewsat. There were President Roberts, ofthe Pennsylvania, a masterly engineerand a great financier; President King,of the Erie, an authority without su-perior upon railway traffic; PresidentSpencer, of the Baltimore and Ohio, ofwonderful keenness and unusual abilityin succinct and lucid statements; Presi-dent Fowler, of the Ontario and West-ern; Samuel Sloane, of the Lackawan-na, and Maxwell, of the Jersey Central,together with that master mind in thefield of railway construction and oper-ation, Vice President Layng, of theWest Shore. Each one of these had hisspecialty, but Depew, as he sat at thehead of the table, was the specialist ofall departme
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