Identifier: locomotiveengine12hill (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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FIG. 20. HORWICH SHOPS. L. & Y. RAILWAY.
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FIG. 21. HORWICH SHOPS. L. & Y. RAILWAY.
each tapper is swung from a trolley,which permits free horizontal movement,while a system of counterweights takescare of the slack rope and permits thenecessary vertical movement. Fig. 22 shows the 400-ton hydraulicflanging press with the furnaces, and inthe foreground some smokebox frontplates that have been flanged.(To be continued.) A Young Admirer of LocomotiveEngineering. The wife of one of our subscriberswrites: My little boy is so interested in Locomotive Engineering, although notsix years. He is always anxious for thebook to come, and when it comes he takesthe book and explains the engines as ifhe were an old engineer; and when hispapa tells anything about the engine, helistens, and can tell word for word. Hedeclares he will be an engineer. I wantliim to be a doctor, but he says, No,mamma; I am going to be an engineer.His name is Orlando Potter, and he livesat Sacramento, Cal. Since commencing to equip their loco-motive lubricato

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