. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o <j 000 0000 O OOOOOOOO O OOOOOOOO 000 00 0000 O OOO OOO o BAFFLE PLATE FOR OIL BURNER. vex to receive the direct action of theflame and spread it in all directions,the convex portion being made thickerthan the remaining portion of the are struts bracing the target. A recent press dispatch from Berlinstates, that Emperor William has in-vented a new hub and brake for railwaytrains and automobiles, which is de-scribed as offering the greatest possibleguarantee against accid
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o <j 000 0000 O OOOOOOOO O OOOOOOOO 000 00 0000 O OOO OOO o BAFFLE PLATE FOR OIL BURNER. vex to receive the direct action of theflame and spread it in all directions,the convex portion being made thickerthan the remaining portion of the are struts bracing the target. A recent press dispatch from Berlinstates, that Emperor William has in-vented a new hub and brake for railwaytrains and automobiles, which is de-scribed as offering the greatest possibleguarantee against accident arising fromthe failure of existing brakes to operatewhen called upon. The practical experi-ments with it have not yet been com-pleted. ROTARY VALVE. H. D. Snell. Maurglen, Pa., has pat-ented a rotary valve for steam The device consists of avalve casing detachably mounted on a. ROCKING VALVE. steam chest, a rotary valve held in thecasing, a retaining and rocking mem-ber secured to each end of the valvethere are rods connecting the rockerams to the valve rod yoke. )..-• RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING November, igo8. AMONG THE RAILWAY MEN Bk James The repair shops of the Illinois Easl St. Louis are .1 fine illustrationoi how the very be>t modern equipmentmay be well kept up under conditionsthat are not as new as thej might chief repair shops of the road are atBurnside, near Chicago, where over 3,000men are employed. The shop at East is a modernized roundhouse, origi-nally intended for running repairs only,but now the large roundhouse has beencleverly subdivided with section and arepair shop, where the general repairingof three or four locqmotives a month iscompleted and where ninety-seven loco-motives are kept in running repair to adegree of perfection that leaves little tobe desired. .Mr. Win. Mcintosh, the master
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