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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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d thus agreat deal of parallel mileage would haveto be made on either side of the lake. Thecar ferry across the lake, where it is about40 miles, greatly reduces time and totalmileage made by the cars. There is a great deal of traffic noworiginating in Pennsylvania, such as coaland iron, which goes to Canada via tin- Railroad Jumbles. At a recent meeting of the RichmondRailroad Club. Mr. Wm. M. Bickers,chief train dispatcher of the C. & O. Ry.,Richmond, Va., read an original paperon the subject of Railroad Jumbles. Itwas a happy departure from the matterand style of papers usually delivered be-fore railroad clubs. Mr. Bickers had adel-ghtful collection of humorous rail- W up ■ UPPER DECK G. T. R. CAR FERRY. road stories, many of which were the ac-count of personal experiences on rail-roads. Like one of the characters sohappily described by Charles Dickens, Mr.Bickers occasionally dropped into poetry.His mastery of the Southern negro dia-lect is particularly fine, and we hope that
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American Ties in Honduras. A railroad in Honduras, which has justbeen opened to traffic as far as Ceiba, 35miles, was built with creosoted pine tiesfrom the United States. This indicatesthat some foreign railroad companies aremore solicitous about preserving ties thanrailroad companies in North America. The increased value of wood thus pre-served is now well recognized by railroadmen. The life of a railroad tie may begreatly lengthened and sometimes morethan doubled by preservative treatment.In a humid climate like that of Hondurasa pine tie in its natural state would bequickly destroyed by fungus. Large railroads of the United Statestreat with preservatives many, or all, ofthe new ties put in. One road is said totreat 10,000 a day. The increasing diffi-culty of procuring new ties, with the ad-vancing prices, compels railroads to makethem last as long as possible. It has beenestimated that the railroads of the UnitedStates demand in a single year the tiesgrowing on a forest strip one

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