. American engineer and railroad journal . steam blown out of boilers andused in heating water for other boilers. Convenience ofmethod of making hydrostatic tests Of boiler strength, and thethoroughness of the operation results in tin ing main- tained in safer condition. On account of the quiiin roundhouse work, passenger locomotives are run on sched-ule with shorter timi ai terminals, thereby increasing theamount of work that .-an be done bj rsonally, i do not believe that tht ah rnating-currentmotor will make verj serious Inroads In the ti id now occupied by tie urrent railway motor. 1 do no


. American engineer and railroad journal . steam blown out of boilers andused in heating water for other boilers. Convenience ofmethod of making hydrostatic tests Of boiler strength, and thethoroughness of the operation results in tin ing main- tained in safer condition. On account of the quiiin roundhouse work, passenger locomotives are run on sched-ule with shorter timi ai terminals, thereby increasing theamount of work that .-an be done bj rsonally, i do not believe that tht ah rnating-currentmotor will make verj serious Inroads In the ti id now occupied by tie urrent railway motor. 1 do not believe that the t-current railwaj system will be changed to any extentinto tic alternating-current railway system; but. what I ex-pect of the alternating-current railway motor is that it willmil develop a field of its own. that field which the direct-current railway motor cannot reach—interurban service, long-distame service, secondary railway service.—Or. C. P. Stein->nal Electru ai i 434 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD BELT HAIL CHECKING MACHINE.


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