Identifier: locomotiveengine10hill (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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nary run ofgood steel was more reliable than iron,and within a few years a complete revolu- to Buffalo, a distance of 183 miles, leav-ing the first named place one hour andsixteen minutes late and arriving at Buf-falo twenty-eight minutes late, which in-cludes going around the Y at Buffalo,coming to a halt for New York Centnlswitch engine to couple on and back toNew York Central Depot and coming toa halt there. The stops made were asfollows: Painesville, Ashtabula, Erie,Brocton Junction, Dunkirk and ErieCrossing at Buffalo. The train consistedof two express cars, one postal, one bag-gage, one smoker, two coaches, twosleeping and one dining car—total, tencars. During the trip in two instances a speedof 75 miles per hour was reached, in oneinstance 78 miles per hour, one distance87 miles per hour, one instance 77 milesper hour and one instance 66 miles perhour. Those who want a copy of the AirBrake Mens proceedings should applyearly. They are going off rapidly. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING.
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GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE LOCOMOTIVE. Twelve Charts. Chart No. 9, MODERN BRITISH PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVES. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 688 Cleaning; Out Ashpits. The ashpit is usually an eyesore aroundany round-house, and the continual dump-ing and cleaning, or partial cleaning, takesmore time than many imagine, besidesnever being really clean. The arrangementat the Meadow shops of the PennsylvaniaRailroad, patterned after the one at Al-toona, is a very neat and efficient device,which seems worthy of being more gen-erally adopted. The illustrations give a fair idea of thegeneral arrangement, which is beside thesand-house, just outside the round-houseat this place. The bridge spans the dumping trackand another beside it. which holds thecars for carrying the ashes away. Theright-hand view shows the cars, or buck-ets, which rest on four-wheel trucks in thepit. be raised double thi di tani e by means ofthe sheave wheel and rope shown, whichdoubles the travel of the ropi The traverse cylinder is of wrought-iron pipe, with an internal diameter of 7^4inch

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