Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1899) (14573643620)

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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



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or theirapproval. Mechanical stokers are nothing new, butso far their field has been limited to sta-tionary boilers. Most of them handle finecoal only; this one can handle moderate-sized lumps. It has been notorious for years that rail-road companies in this country are badlyimposed on by the owners of private carlines. By some means or other nearly allthese lines manage to get a great deal oftheir repairs done by the railroad com-panies free of charge, and the cars of pri-vate lines are notorious for having suchmechanism as air brake and couplers inbad order. The same state of things ap-pears to exist to a great extent in GreatBritain, for at a meeting of the RoyalCommission in England, where cars andcar mechanism were under discussion,Mr. Acworth, a well-known lawyer, madethe point that, according to the Board ofTrade figures, private owners cars failednearly twice as much as the railway com-panies cars, and so led to many moreaccidents. ScpU-inljur, 1899. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 389
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E « 390 LOC().M(>TI\E ENGINEERING September, i8()C). Tra>eling in Alaska. A little more than two years ago Mr.Robert B. Reading, who had been forseveral years division master mechanicof the Manhattan Railway, of New York.and was acting as superintendent of theContinental Match Works, at Passaic, N.J., suddenly became struck with the Klon-dike fever. The fever came in verysevere form, so much so that lie stood noton the order of his going, but went, andthe next news his friends heard of himwas that he was working his way overglaziers in the neighborhood of Dawson..\fter he had dug through glaziers for aconsiderable time and did not find thatthey contained so much gold as he ex-pected, he turned his eyes backward to thejoys of railroad life, and was for sometime employed on the White Pass &Yukon Railway. He came home last year in the deadof winter to thaw out. and of course, one