. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . llknown shops, where they are meeting therequirements. The general dimensions are :Height from floor. 12 ft. 6 ins. Length,18 ft. 6 ins. Width. 5 ft. 6 ins. Strokepull back ram 1 1/16 ins. in diameter. The press can be operated on form-ing boilers by sectional formers up to20 ft. in diameter, and will flange anddish a boiler head 6 ft. 4 ins. in diameter,Ss-in. in thickness at one operation. Theaccumulated pressure is rated at 1,500lbs. per square inch. The total capacitj-of the press being 2
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . llknown shops, where they are meeting therequirements. The general dimensions are :Height from floor. 12 ft. 6 ins. Length,18 ft. 6 ins. Width. 5 ft. 6 ins. Strokepull back ram 1 1/16 ins. in diameter. The press can be operated on form-ing boilers by sectional formers up to20 ft. in diameter, and will flange anddish a boiler head 6 ft. 4 ins. in diameter,Ss-in. in thickness at one operation. Theaccumulated pressure is rated at 1,500lbs. per square inch. The total capacitj-of the press being 200 tons. 290 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. September, 1916. The Rebuilding of a Western Railroad Past and Present of the Chicago Great Western It is well to remember now that a new determination of the men who worked monly called loose change. It was cap-era of activity has set in in American heroically through the dark days was not ital looking for investment. There wasindustries generally and railroads partic- unobserved. The possibilities were not seventeen millions of it. It was like the. P.\C]FIC TYPE OF LOCOMOTIVE OX THE CHIC.\GO GRE.\T WESTEKN ^D. ularly, that even during the darkest daysof financial depression and legislatixc re-pression, there were enterprising spiritsgifted with the vision of the future, andwho saw with the eye of faith all thewonder that would be. Xo better proofof this could be found than a brief glanceat the modernizing of a railroad as shownin the rebuilding and the re-ci|uipnicMt ofthe Chicago Great Western Railruad Onlya few years ago, in passing over it we oli-served that it had all the ear marks offinancial decrepitude. The grass grew onits poorly ballasted track. The signals ofred ruin lit the gloomy pathway fnimsleepy towm to town. The passionate ex-haust of the overworked locomotives thatwended their weary way through thethinly populated region was accompaniedby the clanging of the loose jointed con-necting rods, that sounded m
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