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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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Text Appearing Before Image: t was approaching.No official is now so foolish as to condemnthe air brake for freight trains. Surelythe world docs move. Most of the oppo- inucll older, and you may compare datayou have of her, with the following 1shall give of No. 3: Engine No. 3 wasbuilt by Bury, Curtis & Kennedy, in Liv-erpool. England, about the year 1844, andwas transhipped to Barrow-in-Furness.by boat, before rail communication wasopened up. She has seen fifty years ofservice, first running regularly on mainline, and recently on ballast train andswitching purposes. She has drivingwheels 4 feet eight inches; cylinders, 14and 24 inches; weight of engine, 19 tons:tender, loaded, 13 tons. Improvementshave taken place from time to time for theconvenience of men as well as other andmore substantial reasons, but the designor model is the same as when she firstturned a wheel. Your reproduction ofthis engine will touch a chord in manyan old-timers heart, and though she maynot be the idol of any, its dissemination as

Text Appearing After Image: are on the ground, buried under the snow,and remain there until the Spring thaw. I overheard a switchman loudly con-demning the M. C. B. coupler, and em-phasizing his remarks with gestures of ahand which had only a thumb and onefinger, the remainder having been sacri-ficed to his favorite link-and-pin coupler.An old and very successful conductor,condemning the standard train rules.said: The old rules were so complicatedthat it required a long experience to suc-cessfully work under them, while anyschoolboy could soon master the standardrules, and conductors are getting tooplentiful. This is a mistaken idea, for, with theadvent of the modern safety appliances.the standard of qualifications has beenraised by railway companies, and they re-quire a more intelligent but less recklessclass of employes. I remember that a convention of railwayofficials several years since decided theair brake was not adapted to freight ser-vice on acount of being too expensive to OLD BURY LOCOMOTIVE. sition to

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