Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1901) (14760596112)

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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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., should be made to Woolley& Gerrans, the proprietors of the GrandUnion Hotel at Saratoga Springs, or atthe Iroquois Hotel, Buffalo. Some desire was manifested to holdthe convention at some other place thanSaratoga, but nobody was present whocould guarantee that the necessary accom- sisted that the arrangement led to hurry-ing through the business at a rapid rate,which was not conducive to the best inter-ests of either association. It was then agreedto return to the old practice of holdingthe conventions in different weeks. Anovel change was agreed to, which wasthat the Master Mechanics should meetfirst and the Master Car Builders in thefollowing week. As now agreed upon,the Master Mechanics will meet on thethird Wednesday of June and the MasterCar Builders on the following Monday. The large United States annex at Vin-cennes (Paris E.xposition), together withits steam and electrical equipment, hasbeen sold by Messrs. Charles Neat & Co.,112 Queen Victoria street, E. C, London,
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ally lor Locomotive Engineering, by F. W. Blauvell. EXPERIMENT.\L ELECTRIC ELEVATED TR.\IN—NO 0FFICI.\L D.\T.\ .W.-ML.^BLE, cide on the next place for holding theannual conventions. There were presenton behalf of the Master Car Builders As-sociation Messrs. J. T. Chamberlain, J. J.Hennessey, E. D. Bronner, J, H. McCon-nell and S. P. Bush. On behalf of theMaster Mechanics Association there wereW. S. Morris, A. M. Waitt, Geo. W. Westand Angus Sinclair. A sub-committee which had been pre-viously appointed to inquire into the facili-ties offered at different places for the ac-commodation of the conventions reportedin favor of Saratoga, and it was agreed tohnld the annual convention at that placewith headquarters at the Grand UnionHotel. The arrangement as to rates, etc., arethe same as those that governed the con- modation could be provided elsewhere.The machinery and railway supply exhibi-tion which has become such an importantfeature of these conventions now rule outsome places that m