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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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composed of the leading railroad man r pans of the after company went into the hands of re- agers in the country, should be requestei ceivers. while those that remained solvent to co-operate in securing funds for thi ■ ih been thoroughly tried, and In connection with the application of entered upon a course of retrenchment and purpose of making tests at the Purdu . ,■,!; their advocates, but both these compressed air for the operation of tools or rigid economy that denied the expenditure University. This Association met in Nev 1^ .ire given to shortcomings of the transmission of power, there is one of a dollar that was not absolutely neees- York on April 11. Four members of thi cumpressed air is entirely free. A thing that it would be well for men in ;arv Thi^ cnditinn ■-■f affairs had he- Committee (in Standard Tests nf I.fiomr ^ood paper on the advantages of charge of ihups to remember. TIk ■>■ hruc om, tili-i -■^-ctarv f Hi.- tiv.s were- prc-si-nt, vu, Mes.irs. J N
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Delaware. Sciil Prospects of Raising Funds to Test likely I using compressed air for shop and yard no right purposes was lately read at the Central patented Hailroad Club by Mr. J. H. Chubb, of the theyMichigan Central. After dwelling on theimportance of having air in yards for the The distance to which air can be con-veyed through pipes is almost unlimited. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has This year has not been a good s tarried air six miles to their interlocking for collecting money from railroad •■ystcm at Wilkinsburg. near Pittsburgh, panics to defray the expense of lo Sod in Chicago, at the present time, ar- tive tests. When the Railway i (angements are being made to lay pipes of Mechanics Convention met last June Dsions extending several miles appeared to be no cloud in the bu parts of the city, to carry and and financ npressed air for power pur- request wi iring. the only re- charge of 1 r Mechanics Association, represent- Lauder. R. H. Soule, Angus Sinclair a c Execu

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