English: Identifier: locomotiveengine12hill

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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Text Appearing Before Image: nois Central people are experi-menting with what is known as theSweney exhaust nozzle, which provides aseries of oblong slots for the emission ofsteam from the exhaust pipe. The mak-ers, who are the Root & VandervoortEngineering Company, Champaign, 111.,claim that the nozzle opening is 20 percent, larger than the ordinary nozzle. AperforiTiance sheet giving the comparativeconsumption of coal between an enginewith the ordinary nozzle and that equippedwith the Sweney seems to show a de-cided economy of fuel for the latter engine. An accident happened to a train enteringSt. Enoch Station, Glasgow, of the Cale-donian Railway, some time ago. The plat-form where the train was entering waspartly blocked with empty carriages, andthe train was not under sufficient controlto stop without striking the obstruction.Owing to that accident the inspector ofthe Board of Trade has given orders thathand brakes alone be employed in stoppingat terminal stations. Strange precautionagainst carelessness.

Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 4. jected on the screen, and the candidatewas then required to select flags of certaincolors, and afterward pick out all the flagsof the same colors shown. Views of sema-phores of different kinds and in differentpositions were shown, and the surround-ings would indicate the exact locality onthe road, .so this view served the same The cabs of the large Erie compoundengines of the Atlantic type are now beingfitted with steam heat pipes the same asthe passenger cars. This timely and hu-mane consideration of the engineers com-fort will be duly appreciated by those whohave sat shivering and half-frozen forhours in a boiler-lag.2;ed cab. November, 1899. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 4J3 Len^h^of Rails. The advanlages of increasing tlie lengthof rails from about 20 feet to 30 feet,which may now be considered the stand-ard length, were so obvious to everybodyconnected with the maintenance of trackthat it was not surprising when, abouteight or ten years ago, an agitation beganin favor of making

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