. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . strength, capacity or operating efficiency. These im-provements point the way to a success unheard of in anyprevious epoch of locomotive engineering. Questions covering the possible advantages of three-cylinder locomotives, novel types of boilers and variousother departtures from commonly accepted practice willbe solved as time goes on. Just now, however, there is agood opportunity, for improvement on many roads inthe direction already suggested. Those interested in this subject must have not
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . strength, capacity or operating efficiency. These im-provements point the way to a success unheard of in anyprevious epoch of locomotive engineering. Questions covering the possible advantages of three-cylinder locomotives, novel types of boilers and variousother departtures from commonly accepted practice willbe solved as time goes on. Just now, however, there is agood opportunity, for improvement on many roads inthe direction already suggested. Those interested in this subject must have noticed thevery instructive articles which have appeared in recentissues of Railway and Locomotive Engineering on theprogress made in Germany and elsewhere; though, ofcourse, this advance is concerned very largely with loco-motives having three or four cylinders. Even so, the sameideas are feasible in connection with locomotives of thefamiliar two-cylinder single-expansion type. All that isrequired is a little enterprise backed by a few dollarsadded to the initial cost of each engine; an expenditure. Reading Pacific Type Locomotive Exhibited at Atlantic City that does not figure again during the lite of the locomo-tive. In order to understand fully the meaning of refinementof detail it is necessary only to look back a few years andthink of the largest locomotives then in use and of theirrelative inefficiency as compared with engines of not muchgreater weight today. If a man cannot grasp the situa-tion after that, his case is hopeless! Those of use who have an abiding faith in the steamlocomotive have much to be thankful for; not the leastof our blessings being brought to us by those who sharedthat faith at a time, when visionaries were crying theirwares in the market place! Arthur Curran. Cost of Dining Car Service The Norfolk and Western Railway served 248,056travelers in its dining cars last year—and lost slightlymi ire than 31 cents per meal served, according to data re-centl
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