. American engineer and railroad journal . re & Co., New paper was whatwould now be known asa house organ, and wasimmediately made inde-pendent and greatlvbroadened by its new-owner and by JamesGillet, who remainedwith it as editor. Itsinfluence in car matterssoon became national,and it was continuedwith marked success un-til January, 1896, when Air. Van Arsdale purchased theAmerican Engineer & Railroad Journal from M. and combined the two papers under the title ofAmerican Engineer, Car Builder and RailroadJournal. This title was retained for two years, and wasthen changed t
. American engineer and railroad journal . re & Co., New paper was whatwould now be known asa house organ, and wasimmediately made inde-pendent and greatlvbroadened by its new-owner and by JamesGillet, who remainedwith it as editor. Itsinfluence in car matterssoon became national,and it was continuedwith marked success un-til January, 1896, when Air. Van Arsdale purchased theAmerican Engineer & Railroad Journal from M. and combined the two papers under the title ofAmerican Engineer, Car Builder and RailroadJournal. This title was retained for two years, and wasthen changed to its present form, The American Engi-neer and Railroad Journal. In purchasing this publication, Mr. Van Arsdale be-came the sole owner of the oldest railroad paper in theworld, which had been founded in 1832 and publishedcontinuously since that date. Under Mr. Forneys own-ership it had obtained a commanding position as a mo-tive power authority and the combination of it with theNational Car Builder, of equal reputation in the car. department, made a remarkably powerful and influen-tial publication. Mr. Van Arsdale, however, was notsatisfied, and proceeded to develop, broaden and in-crease the influence of the combination along conserva-tive lines, which policy was vigorously pursued up tothe time of his death. Upon the retirement of Mr. Forney at the end of1896 George M. Basford was secured as the editor, andduring the next nine years Mr. Van Arsdales policy ofpublishing a paper which should not only be the cham-pion of the motive pow-er department and aleader in its develop-ment, but also of thegreatest possible practi-cal benefit to its individ-ual subscribers, wasfully developed andmost successfully putinto effect. An illustration of hisinterest in the progressof the motive powerdepartment on Americanrailways is shown in theelaborate series of testson locomotive front endappliances, which wereundertaken and mostgenerously provided forby him. These testswere made at the loco
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