Identifier: railwaylocomotiv26newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ro-vided with openings for admitting airabove the fire. It was a regular habitwith the enginemen to close up theseopenings, because cutting off the supplyof superfluous air resulted in saving coal,although more or less smoke was pro-duced. These enginemen were not theor-ists, but they understood the conditionthat would maintain steam pressure withthe smallest expenditure of coal. Arthur Simms. Philadelphia, Pa. a set I tlie photographs to them ati i >-i. which may be had on application.Should you find room to reproduce oneof the photographs, perhaps the copyof the Grand Trunk Pacific type in thecollection might suit as a sample. Yourillustrations continue to be excellent.while the reading matter of Railway preservation of the famous old locomo-tive and coaches redounds greatly to thecredit of the railroad company for theexcellent care of what are now historicrelics of early steam railroad transporta-tion. 1 recall seeing the autographs of theoriginal passengers on a wood cut, show-
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GRAND TRUNK LOCOMOTIVE OF PACIFIC TYPE. and Locomotive Engineering combinesall of the best features possible in aneducational and trade journal. Edward L. Greene.South Paris, Maine.

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