. American engineer and railroad journal . Richmond & Danville atFairfax Station. The line which is to connectthe two systems is the Metropolitan Southern,which is to extend from Linden Station, a shortdistance from Washington, on the Metropolitanbranch of the Baltimore & Ohio, to traffic for points on the Richmond &Danville will be run upon the Metropolitan Branch from Wash-ington to Linden, when the connection is estabished. andthence to the South by way of Fairfax. It is thought that thisconnection led to the rumors of the acquisition by the Baltimore& Ohio of southern railro
. American engineer and railroad journal . Richmond & Danville atFairfax Station. The line which is to connectthe two systems is the Metropolitan Southern,which is to extend from Linden Station, a shortdistance from Washington, on the Metropolitanbranch of the Baltimore & Ohio, to traffic for points on the Richmond &Danville will be run upon the Metropolitan Branch from Wash-ington to Linden, when the connection is estabished. andthence to the South by way of Fairfax. It is thought that thisconnection led to the rumors of the acquisition by the Baltimore& Ohio of southern railroad systems, which Pie^ident denied. The Carlisle Manufacturing Company is building 300 hoppergondola cars of 60,000 lbs. capacity for the Monongahf la RiverRailroad. thus holding it firmly against the outside stops, making a tightjoint and preventing the rattling of ihe sash. This arrange-ment, it is claimed, will not only exclude air and dust, but willprevent the opening of the window from without, as any force. The Edvtrards Car Window. The accompanying illustration shows a car window devisedby Mr. O. M. Edwards, of Syracuse, N. Y., fig i being a per-spective view and fig. 2 a section through the winrtnw casing. The window sash is connected by a band to a spring roller ofsufficient strength to lift the sash. In place of the ordinarystops on the inside of the window are two compound slops, oneat either end of the sash. These stops consist of a movablesection or strip enclosed by a stationary casing, to which theyare connected by pivoted links so arranged that the sec-tion is thrown upward and outward by a spring against the sash, EDWARDS CAR WINDOW applied for that purpose would only lock the sash more the window is open the sash can be readily pushed down,as its friction will remove the pressure of the movable slops are connected by a. rock-shaft provided with anarm midway between them, and at the top of the window, 10which a tassel
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