. American engineer and railroad journal . d. When a large number of sheets are lithographed atone time, and the tracing cloth is furnished in rolls, the aver-age cost of cutting the cloth and lithographing the marginsand general title is less than two cents per sheet. The aver-age cost of doing the work by hand is about eight cents persheet, and is not as uniform and regular as when lithographing these tracings, the trimming and marginlines, holes for punching and general titles may be put on asdesired, and the tracing sheet is ready for the draftsman, whoproceeds with the dra
. American engineer and railroad journal . d. When a large number of sheets are lithographed atone time, and the tracing cloth is furnished in rolls, the aver-age cost of cutting the cloth and lithographing the marginsand general title is less than two cents per sheet. The aver-age cost of doing the work by hand is about eight cents persheet, and is not as uniform and regular as when lithographing these tracings, the trimming and marginlines, holes for punching and general titles may be put on asdesired, and the tracing sheet is ready for the draftsman, whoproceeds with the drawing without delaying to lay out thesheet. He completes the title and fills in the date when thedrawing is finished. Gas engines using blast furnace gas will be installed to fur-nish the blast for four new furnaces now building by the Lack-awanna Steel Company at Stony Point, near Buffalo. Thispower has long been used in Europe, but this is its first ap-pearance in this country for this purpose. 318 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD Kill 1 ■:. 1 Ll(l,l am u lull jjimiimuj Repair Facilities for Steel Cars.—A Suggestion by L. H. Turner. REPAIR FACILITIES FOR STEEL CARS. A topical discussion on Modern Requirements and Facilitiesfor Repair Tracks as Influenced by High Capacity Cars, at therecent M. C. B. convention, was opened by Mr. L. H. Turner,as follows: It is probable that all that can be said upon this subject isalready thoroughly understood and appreciated. However, theintroduction of heavy capacity cars has made it necessary toprovide additional facilities to repair tracks, and these facili-ties have not been provided to compare with the speaking, the improvements of this class of workare the last to he considered, but the opportunities for im-proved methods and money saving are just as great there as inthe repair shop. The time has passed when any railroad com-pany that attempts to maintain from seven to ten thousandcars at any one
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