Identifier: locomotiveengine09hill (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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ith line C D. The center lines of eccentric rods aredrawn from the centers M JV to the pointsof connection 0 P on the link, to completethe figure, and not because thev are ride comfortably enough with alternatedjoints; but when the track is permittedto run down and low joints are the rule,the cars sway from side to side in a fashionthat is very uncomfortable, to say theleast of it. During a recent journey in the South,tlie train encountered a piece of track inbad condition, with the joints broken, Itbroke the temper of every man who at-tempted to stand in front of the wash cle lias been placed in the way of this en-terprise. The completion of and opera-tion of a real railway in China—for thepioneer road now running from Tient-sing is chiefly a coal carrier and has littlebut local business—will doubtless work arevolution in sentiment and ultimately re-sult in a very large amount of railwaybuilding in the great empire, in whichAmerican builders and operators willhave no small share.
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NEW DESIGN OF LOCOMOTIVE FOR GREAT WESTERN OF ENGLAND. needed to e.xemplify the matter under con-sideration. It is now seen how variable is the con-nection between the angular advance andthe position of crank pin, as shown inFig. i; and the need of our X-ray to pene-trate the opacity of the subject will, nodoubt, be conceded by those who haveever had a struggle with it. O. H. R. Broken Rail Joints. Some years ago certain railroad menraised an agitation in favor of laying railsto break joints. We never could seewherein any advantage could result fromthe rails being laid in that way, but thereare a good many disadvantages whichpresent themselves readily enough to rail-road men. We do not hear any moreagitation in favor of breaking joints, butwe occasionally realize the discomfort totravelers that results from the practicehaving been adopted. If a roadbed iskept in first-class condition, a train will basins. The curious spectacle was to beseen of men washing themselves with onehand and h

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