Identifier: locomotiveengine08hill (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

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ening couldbe regulated. Provide a brick arch and re-stricted means of admitting air above thefire. Add to this an engineer and firemanwho take an interest in preventing theemission of unnecessary black smoke. Allthe recommendations given are important;the last is of greater importance than allthe others. No combination has ever beentried for the prevention of smoke thatwould act well without intelligent humanco-operation. A good fireman is aided bysmoke-preventing devices, but a good fire-man will do better with a plain fireboxthan a poor fireman will do with all thesmoke-preventing attachments that can besecured to the firebox. ^ i i Electricity is becoming an active rivalof steam in railroad operating, but it is notmaking half the headway that some elec-tric cranks try to make out. Within themonth, another elevated electric railwayfrom New York to Chicago has been in-corporated, with an imaginary capital of$200,000,000. Of course, the trains aregoing to be run at 100 miles an hour.
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