. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gine andescaped without much injury, but twopassengers, who insisted on jumping fromthe cars were severely injured, one ofthem fatally. The engine, in rolling downthe mountain side, caught the electric wireused for signaling, and the second traincoming down the grade ran into the carsthat were standing on the track unpro-tected and made a very bad smash, al-though nobody was injured. The accident has led to a somewhatheated discussion in the English engin-eering papers about the advantages anddisadvantag
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gine andescaped without much injury, but twopassengers, who insisted on jumping fromthe cars were severely injured, one ofthem fatally. The engine, in rolling downthe mountain side, caught the electric wireused for signaling, and the second traincoming down the grade ran into the carsthat were standing on the track unpro-tected and made a very bad smash, al-though nobody was injured. The accident has led to a somewhatheated discussion in the English engin-eering papers about the advantages anddisadvantages of various kinds of racksfor mountain railways, and the Govern-ment Inspectors have been attacked forbeing inefficient. The illustrations andthe facts concerning the accident havebeen taken from the pages of Engincer-mg. Away back twenty years or more ago,George Cole was running the ii8 onthe Falls division of the New York Cen-tral. One day, while on the CincinnatiExpress, this engine—a 15 x 22-inch, s/i-foot wheel, Schenectady—broke bothdriving axles at each end—four straight. Fig, 2. electricity is far from being satisfactory,there being numerous delays owing todefects of the electrical mechanism. Theinclination to use electricity for elevatedroads is. nevertheless, on the increase. It leading stockholders have been inclinedto favor the change, but there is no elec-tric company that will give any guaranteeof saving through the use of electric mo-tors. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 495
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