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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ood-looking body of men. © i ^ The first man to properly get at the trueweight of coal used by his engines wasGeo. S. Griggs, on the Boston & Provi-dence, nearly forty years ago. He weighedengine and tender before and after takingcoal. The N. Y. Central are just com-mencing that practice. The WisconsinCentral use a spring scale on their coalbuckets. Jilost of the other roads areguessing at it. Stack Black. Claude Ayers, the hustler ot the Ft.Worth & Denver City road, at Clarendon,Tex., has a famous receipt for stackblack that saves time and makes a hand-some job, that Claude says, Has the rightof track over everything on the road.The receipt is as follows: Asphaltum, 8pounds, and fuse in an iron kettle; thenadd 5 gallons of linseed oil, i pound oflitharge, Yi pound of sulphate of zinc(add these slowly or it will foam over).Boil three hours, and then add 1Y2 poundsof dark gum amber and boil 2 hourslonger, or until the mass becomes quitethick, when cool. After this it should be
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THE MASTER MECHANICS OF THE CENTRAL RAILWAY OF BRAZIL, the system, a Brazilian, and a clever man. Picture No. 4 is Mr. Antonio LopezFerras, master mechanic at Burra de Pir-ahy. Mr. Ferras is a Brazilian who hasbeen with the road since boyhood, grad-ually advancing until he attained his pres-ent position. The fifth, and last is Mr. Alexander Ro-bau, born in France, but for many yearswith the Central of Brazil. He resigned hisposition as master mechanic at San Paulosome months ago to go into business, and The Boys Named Em. A long time ago an engineer on the FallBrook road made a fast run down severalbad grades with a coal train, and the super-intendent heard of it. He not only calledthe engineer upon the carpet, but he putup boards at the head of all stifif grades,stating just how many minutes freighttrains must use in getting to the bottom. The engineers dubbed the new signsMcCoys time-cards. and they areknown as such even to this day. thiinied to a proper consistency with tur-pentine

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