. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Over Scenic Short Line. By J. A. Baker, 307. •fri u Unpopularity of the Pooling System, Driving Wheel, The, 461. Vanderbilt Steel Hopper Car, 10. w War Monster, A, 15. Washing a Moving Train. 298. Waste of Wood, A, 549. Watch Inspection, 67. •Water Tube Locomotive Boiler, 53S. Water Softening in Relation to Washing Outon Railways, 450. Water Softening on the Pennsylvania Lines, 501. Westfield Disaster, The. 123. What is the Torque of an Electric Motor, 18^. Why an Engi
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Over Scenic Short Line. By J. A. Baker, 307. •fri u Unpopularity of the Pooling System, Driving Wheel, The, 461. Vanderbilt Steel Hopper Car, 10. w War Monster, A, 15. Washing a Moving Train. 298. Waste of Wood, A, 549. Watch Inspection, 67. •Water Tube Locomotive Boiler, 53S. Water Softening in Relation to Washing Outon Railways, 450. Water Softening on the Pennsylvania Lines, 501. Westfield Disaster, The. 123. What is the Torque of an Electric Motor, 18^. Why an Engine Pounds Harder on Left Sidethan on Right, 221. Why an Engine Slips Backing Up. By J. iSi. Why Foreign Locomotives May be More Effi-cient Than Ours. By W. A. Buckbee,2S6. Why Large Engines Fail, 360. Wilmarth Engines. By C. M. Sheafe, 541. With Brain and Hand, 297. Wooden Smoke Jack on the Chicago & North-western, 573. Word for the Resident Inspector in ProsperousTimes, A, 122. Young Engineer, The. By Shandy Maguire,155- Railway. .and lOcomotive Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co. -1V03. A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock vor. XVI. 174 Broadway, New York, January, 1903 No. I LOCOMOTIVE ANNIVERSARY NUMBER The Cirowth of the Locomotive. BY ANGUS SINCLAIR. The first locomotive engine designedto run upon rails was built in the year1803, consequently this is the looth an-niversary of the introduction of the rail-way locomotive. The engine was de-signed by Richard Ti-evithick, a Cornishmine captain, and built under his direc-tion in a blacksmiths shop connectedwith iron works at Mcrthyr-Tydvil inSouth Wales. WHERE THE FIRST ROAD LOCOMOTIVE WASBUILT. If any student of industrial history pos-sessed of the poetic instinct of looking The business resulting made Merthyr-Tydvil an important town at the begin-ning of last century. AN IMPORTANT WAGER. The residents of the district, many ofthem the descendants of mighty smiths,those valiant artisans who took
Size: 2688px × 930px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectrailroa, bookyear1901
