. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng thatthey were well fitted. The press has beenmade and used at the Northern CentralRailroad shops, Elmira, N. Y. J. A. ElSENAKER. Elmira, N. Y. i ^ i At the last meeting of the New YorkRailroad Club the subject of steam heatingof trains was up. Several of the speakerswere arguing the necessity for automaticdevices, stating that any system dependingon the trainmen to regulate it was de-fective. Mr. W. S. Morris, of the C. & O.,touched the point when he stated that hisroad had five or six diflferent syst
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ng thatthey were well fitted. The press has beenmade and used at the Northern CentralRailroad shops, Elmira, N. Y. J. A. ElSENAKER. Elmira, N. Y. i ^ i At the last meeting of the New YorkRailroad Club the subject of steam heatingof trains was up. Several of the speakerswere arguing the necessity for automaticdevices, stating that any system dependingon the trainmen to regulate it was de-fective. Mr. W. S. Morris, of the C. & O.,touched the point when he stated that hisroad had five or six diflferent systems inuse, and that the best results were foundwhere the trainmen controlled the heat byhand; that by giving them a temperatureto go by, and not the whims of anybody,and keeping the discipline up, the men gotresults without any apparent trouble. believes in men. Automatic de-vices have proved highly advantageous inconnection with train mechanism, but itis a good thing to remember that thehuman element cannot be entirely dis-pensed with. -^^>:>y^-^^x^^^?^>^^x^^^^^. Fig. I PISTON REMOVER. frames and inside valves, and thus make I askedthe Prince of Wales and Lord Alger-non more infernally British, and there-fore more daring innovations than theforward slab arrangement he suggests canever make them. If he will only do it Iam certain that the hearse will pull easierand a great saving of fuel will result, tosay nothing of doing away with the sewerwhich the Old Man naturally is ratherscared about. Although a bloated and debased Eng-lishman, I have adopted almost all Ameri-can devices which I think you regard asessential to enable a railway man to pro-cure a seat in heaven, and among them areforty locomotives with outside cylindersand valves on top. Now, if these same i„cm»l.«< ini/inwriW H a very celebrated locomotivebuilder why he still stuck to the morecostly bar frame. His reply simply indi-cated prejudice, more or less, on the partof his customers, and h
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