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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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f reck-lessness or common-law negligence shownin this case, and tlie only question iswhether a goose is an animal or obstruc-tion in the sense of the statute, section1574, sub-section 4, Shannons compila-tion, which requires Jie alarm whistle to to be loath to stoop from his dignity toescap- a passing train. But the line must be drawn somewhere,and we are of the opinion that the goose isthe proper bird to draw it at. n. N. Forneys Feed Water Heater. The veteran railroad mechanical en-gineer, M. N. Forney, has always beenan advocate of using some of the wasteheat that passes out through the smokestack of a locomotive to heat the feedwater. He has been long working uponthe designing of a device for this pur-pose, and he thinks it is about ready forapplication. He does not think that itwill save so per cent, of the fuel used,but he thinks it will save enough to in-duce railroad officials to apply it to theirlocomotives. Heat economizers are a de-cided success in connection with the boil-
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..BlOEZlE^EMn nia.*w£3aii DETAII,S OF FOUR CYLINDER COVIPOUND ON THE AUSTRIAN STATE RAILWAY. Main-rods (Martin steel No. 7 : Length 79,j inches. Crosshead pins, diameter 2% length 3 (Low pressure cyl.) main-rod journals, diameter, ,4^ (Low pressure cj-l,) raain-rod journals length i^\z Side-rods (Martin steel No. 7.: Length 110 inches. Crank-pins, diameter 45^ length i¥i Stiiriinq ^ear (G.^lsdorf system. Brake:Automatic vacuum brake— sy.-tem. Hardy of Vienna.Sand-box:Steam sand-box on drivers and truck-wheels—system Holt & Gresham. Weight empty lJ4,ooo lbs. in ninnitig order 150.000 * • on truck 58,600 fir.st pair of drivers 31,900 * * second pair of drivers 31.900 ■ trailing wheels 27,600 be sounded and brakes put down andevery possible means employed to stopthe train and prevent an accident when ananimal or obstruction appears on thetrack. It is evident this provision is de-signed not only to protect animals on thetrack, but also the passengers and em-ployes upon the t

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