. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . On drivers— pounds. On truck—17,150 pounds. Total engine—100,250 pounds. Total engine and tender — 179,550pounds. There was a tremendously fast runmade on the Chicago, Burlington &Quincy on April 14. A distance of was made in 192 minutes, includingstops, and in 183^ minutes running Burlington route is gradually gain-ing a reputation for the fast running oftrains. The companys fine motive powerand excellent road-bed make fast runningpossible and safe. 234 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING M
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . On drivers— pounds. On truck—17,150 pounds. Total engine—100,250 pounds. Total engine and tender — 179,550pounds. There was a tremendously fast runmade on the Chicago, Burlington &Quincy on April 14. A distance of was made in 192 minutes, includingstops, and in 183^ minutes running Burlington route is gradually gain-ing a reputation for the fast running oftrains. The companys fine motive powerand excellent road-bed make fast runningpossible and safe. 234 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING May, 1899. Blacksmith Tools for a Railroad Shop. IIY JAMES Any blacksmith shop handling locomo-tive or car work, either building new orrepairing, can add to the rapidity of turn-ing out work as well by having a completeset of smiths tools as by any automaticmachine. The machines are good; bothtogether are better. There should be a too! room like amachine shop, where all templates, draw-ings, formers, punches, drifts and specialtools are kept. There should be about. this down in a straight line through thecenter of your swage. After you haveit where you want it, take a size from 1-16to % inch larger than the size you wantto swage in it and drive it down until itsdepth is as shown in Fig. i. Now take it to the anvil, put it in andsee how it lines up for being square. Trimoff one end square wjth anvil, let the otherend project % inch over the anvil. Thesides will be spread out; so trim them,square down and smooth up with it and put it in anvil. Take thepiece of round iron; wet it. Set yourswage on and have the helper strike ithard, dipping every time to make theblock well inside. Then put your topswage out near the end and strike a coupleof blows, repeating at the other end. Thisleaves it high in the middle, and will notcut up work as a straight groove will. Make top swage, and in fact all toolsthat are handled all day, as light as pos-sible. The ligh
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