visibility Similar

code Related

Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1896) (14758644361)

description

Summary

Identifier: locomotiveengine09hill (find matches)

Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock

Year: 1892 (1890s)

Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919

Subjects: Railroads Locomotives

Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)

Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

Text Appearing Before Image:

4 inches, together with the transversetie-rods, spaced 4 feet 5 inches, roundsout a rigidity to the foundation that is rep-resentative of the best practice in bodyconstruction.

Text Appearing After Image:

NEW POST-OFFICE CAR, BUILT BY ERIE RAILROAD. Our illustrations, for which the printswere kindly furnished by Mr. A. E. Mit-chell, superintendent of motive power,deal with the framing and construction.These cars are without the platforms andhoods, said by many to be useless and ex-pensive relics handed down from theearly builders of railway rolling stock.If any need for these ever existed, it wouldappear that it has passed into the beyondat this time. They are going the way ofsome other fads that cannot give convinc-ing reasons for their existence, for inthese utilitarian times the demand for ashow-down may be relied on to take thecurves out of things crooked. The in-terrogation point is most potent in work-ing reforms. ous ways, all of which have been an im-provement over the old method; and this,one of the latest, is easily one of the bestyet devised to resist end shocks, for thereason that the iron plates are placed soas to receive the blow in the direction oftheir greatest resistan

label_outline

Tags

erie railroad locomotive engineering 1896 postal railway wagons book illustrations industrial history transportation locomotive railroads railroad industry engineering locomotive engineering railroads locomotives images from internet archive
date_range

Date

1896
create

Source

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
link

Link

http://commons.wikimedia.org/
copyright

Copyright info

public domain

label_outline Explore Locomotive Engineering 1896, Erie Railroad, Railroads Locomotives

Topics

erie railroad locomotive engineering 1896 postal railway wagons book illustrations industrial history transportation locomotive railroads railroad industry engineering locomotive engineering railroads locomotives images from internet archive