. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . yed into asupply tank and pumped back into theIxiilrr. The supply tank is of to carry enough water to makeup for losses in condensing. A draft ap-pliance is used in the form of a fan thatdelivers air to the boiler fire. The re-ports so far are of a satisfactory kind. 376 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE EXGIXEERIXG. September, 1910. Pennsylvania Railroad Shops at Trenton, N. J. When the shops of llic- PennsylvaniaRailroad were built near Trenton, X. years ago, the location d
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . yed into asupply tank and pumped back into theIxiilrr. The supply tank is of to carry enough water to makeup for losses in condensing. A draft ap-pliance is used in the form of a fan thatdelivers air to the boiler fire. The re-ports so far are of a satisfactory kind. 376 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE EXGIXEERIXG. September, 1910. Pennsylvania Railroad Shops at Trenton, N. J. When the shops of llic- PennsylvaniaRailroad were built near Trenton, X. years ago, the location did not looklo be a very promising one. The mead-ows had the appearance of prairie lands,—rank with weeds in sunmier and dismalas the desert in winter. This is allchangci! now. The cluster of buildings men arc piece workers, it can iic seenthat they are by the amazing speed atwhich all of the machines arc moving,llie wheel lathes turn out 8 pair ofwheels each day of nine hours, the totalcost of the operation including trans-ferring the wheels to and from thelathes being 5 rents per pair. Xot only. P.\RT \Ii:\V OF P. R. R. AT TKEXTOX. N. T. forming the repair shops seem to havetransfigured the location into one of ex-panding beauty. The buildings form agroup of half a dozen squares of sub-stantial steel and brick structures, facedwith gray granite, and in the commodiousspaces between the shops there are minia-ture gardens of fiowers where the redportulica, white alyssium and the bluelobelia blossom into geometric offices are elegant. The drawingrooms are commodious, and there is anairiness and lightness everywhere that isrefreshing. Mr. H. H. Maxfield, the genial andgentlemanly master mechanic belongs tothe younger school of mechanical de-partment officers. A graduate of StevensInstitute he super-added to his tech-nical training a practical experience inthe central shops at Altoona, and wasplaced in charge of the Trenton shopsbefore they were completed. There a
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