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: railroadcompanies hesitate to lock up the price ofa rotary, which is, or was, about $20,000;but the lesson of a few such storms as thelast may cause snch a purchase to be evi- rotary plow, and then the greater part ofa day was spent inside of its machinehouse or watching its operations fromoutside. The snow was so hard that per-sons walked on the top of it without mak-ing much mark, but the machine sliced itsway through cuttings that were about 15feet deep. We regretted all day that wehad no camera along to take a photographof the rotary at work, but fortunatelythere is a picture on page 6 of this issueshowing a rotary at work in Colorado,which is a good picture of what was seenwithin twenty miles of New York lastmonth. Our friend, Mr. W. F. Dixon, of Sor-movo, Russia, saw in a St. Petersburgpaper a notice that the upper part of theHome Life Insurance Buildingwas burnedout, and he immediately wrote us a warm-ly worded letter of sympathy. It con-cludes : The stoppage of Locomotive En-

Text Appearing After Image: great NORTHERN OF ENGLAND EXPRESS ENGINE. The Lesson of the BLizzard. The snow blockade of last month on theLong Island road was one of the worstever experienced in that section. Thehurricane which accompanied the snowfall packed the snow so hard that a wedgeplow was of no more use than a carpetsweeper. In fact, the large double-trackplow which was sent out to buck it,was destroyed by impact with the frozendrifts, and not only this, one engine of thefive which were pushing the plow wasbadly wrecked in the smash, the conduc-tor was killed, and the engineer seriouslyinjured. The destruction wrought in thiscase will give some idea of the resistanceoffered by hard-packed snow. There is nothing on earth that will makeany impression on a blockade of this kind. dence of a clear understanding that moneycan sometimes be made by its withdrawalfrom the usual channels of trade. The Northern Pacific has given goodevidence of its faith in such an invest-ment, by being first in the field with thesep

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