. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . idea ied down to a roundhouse is hard belter paid Thes trong rally. reputa brought forth v travelers are not exclaiming, Banishbattering-ram cars! They are demjin^; day cars as strong as the Pullmans We suspect that the progthe use of steel in car constrube retarded by any fear thatcinent the steel structures wiof wood. In the early days oin this country, when passen]structurally weak, the most ctidents were due to the crucars. This source of dangertenally ehminated by : the jx pec ted obst . this Wh pen
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . idea ied down to a roundhouse is hard belter paid Thes trong rally. reputa brought forth v travelers are not exclaiming, Banishbattering-ram cars! They are demjin^; day cars as strong as the Pullmans We suspect that the progthe use of steel in car constrube retarded by any fear thatcinent the steel structures wiof wood. In the early days oin this country, when passen]structurally weak, the most ctidents were due to the crucars. This source of dangertenally ehminated by : the jx pec ted obst . this Wh pens the strength of the car must be relii;!upon to save the lives of the people cars of a given weight will resist those of wood ; and this is a good reasonfor the introduction of steel in car con-struction. Patching the ends with platesof steel, and binding the framing with thesame strong material, have already madecars stand shocks with impunity, whichwould have been fatal to a weaker struc-ture. We feel certain that the teaching ofexperience is in favor of the strong ma-. ; befor prone I blas- the here-inbefore mentioned foreman. This foreman was one of those restfulmortals who make you feel satisfied withyour lot, when you kick about cylinderpacking that blows, valves that leak, or ■rial, -this lelps 1 Old-TJme Broad Gauge Mill. The It and honorable c port ; here a part of the New ^^f^^ gine for speed on theNew York road, nowJersey & New York. The ••Hackcnsack was built by theRogers Locomotive and Machine Worksin i860, and for many years hauled passen-gers, until ruled off the course by the nar-rowing up of the line. Her principal di- Ijaugeofroad, 6 ft. forf kind that scratches off a// the workput on the book if he does a little of it. One of the kind who believe in goodenough jobs. One of the kind who are always wantingto get out on the road to run—and hasnever done any running, or firing, ^>cther. Skeevers laid for Davidson for over ayear, and final
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