. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n the passengercoaches of some of the leading railwaylines is worthy of attention. Quite a large ways. Helsingfors. Finland, nine i6 x 24-inch ten-wheeled passenger locomotiveswith six-wheeled tenders complete. Thisis the second order shipped by the Rich-mond Works to the Finland StateRail-ways, the first order being for seventeenengines. An Air Helper for Valve Setting. Many devices are in use for turnmg thewheels of an engine when setting valves,and another contribution to the list maybe of service to
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n the passengercoaches of some of the leading railwaylines is worthy of attention. Quite a large ways. Helsingfors. Finland, nine i6 x 24-inch ten-wheeled passenger locomotiveswith six-wheeled tenders complete. Thisis the second order shipped by the Rich-mond Works to the Finland StateRail-ways, the first order being for seventeenengines. An Air Helper for Valve Setting. Many devices are in use for turnmg thewheels of an engine when setting valves,and another contribution to the list maybe of service to some who are still doingit by hand. In this case it is a simpleaffair, consisting of the steam cylinder ofa Westinghouse air pump, a few levers, aratchet wheel and the necessary pawls. These can be connected up in variousways; the sketch shows one of them wehave seen. The pawls are thrown in andout by a lever which comes up throughthe floor, and of course the main wheelsof engine rest on rollers which are on thesame shaft as the ratchet wheel shown. This is said to work very nicely and. AIR HELPER FOR SETTING VALVES. number of passenger coaches of severalrailways are now being equipped with thissystem of electric lights and fans, and inevery instance it is said to be giving entiresatisfaction to all concerned. The systemis self-regulating; or in other words, it isautomatic. The cost of maintenance percar per annum is said to be less than thatof other methods of car lighting. The various companies that have forseveral years been engaged in the manu-facture and sale of electric car lightingequipment have been, in the past fewmonths, merged into the ConsolidatedRailway Electric Lighting and EquipmentCompany, of New York. This company will have one of its com-plete electric car lighting equipments, in-cluding the use of electric fans as appliedto a passenger coach or private car, onexhibition at Saratoga during the of the Master Car Builders andthe American Railway Ma
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