. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd injured two ofthem ; these were both drunk at the ran 21,167 trains of freight, containing670,000 cars, mostly coal laden. Threeemployes were killed and 47 injured. Thisis the road where there is no lay-off forpunishment—results seem to prove the rulea good one. ^ i i stating that a feed-water heater for sta-tionary engines was of so much horsepower meant nothing very definite—alldepending on how much water goesthrough the heater and how much it isheated—and all this depends on what theengine
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nd injured two ofthem ; these were both drunk at the ran 21,167 trains of freight, containing670,000 cars, mostly coal laden. Threeemployes were killed and 47 injured. Thisis the road where there is no lay-off forpunishment—results seem to prove the rulea good one. ^ i i stating that a feed-water heater for sta-tionary engines was of so much horsepower meant nothing very definite—alldepending on how much water goesthrough the heater and how much it isheated—and all this depends on what theengine uses. Several manufacturers ofheaters recently met in this city, andagreed to abandon the use of the termhorse power, and state thesquare feet of heating surface contained intheir heaters. This is sense. We are out of Chart No. i, given m1894. Dont ask for it. Building a Railroad Through a SwampCountry. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul re-cently opened a new extension of theirWisconsin Valley Division, which pre-sented some obstacles to construction notalwavs \Vh.\t the Surveyors Found. The first engraving on this page showsthe virgin swamp that the sur\-eyorstackled. The line runs through swamps,sandy lowlands and among numerouslakes. The second picture shows a sinkhole—there were three of these within two material used for the fill was heavierthan the mud in the bottom of the lake,and it kept sinking and raising the mudaround it. There is an island of mud tothe right of the fill. On page 213 are two views of the line inthe more substantial sand—one taken be-fore the track was surfaced or aligned andthe other when ready for business. g i i The Difference Was in the Rent. Isaac Dripps, while M. M. at Borden-town, N. J., of the C. & A. Ry., manyyears ago, had one machinist, a notoriousshirk, that put in more time in the water-closet than in the shop. He proposed toteach him an effective object lesson ; soone pay day Sojers pay was two-thirds
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