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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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f a shop,thej may be easily dispelled by a littleexperimenting along the lines notedIn the mattei 61 car «heels and. by the way, there are few shops where the ubject of wheels is not a live issue, sincenearly all are chronically behind in theirorders—a revolution can be worked byspeeding up, or increasing the feed, orboth. It has been done in the aboveshop to the extent of doubling the pro-duct of an antiquated machine. The old tool could never be mad- to Ky., is chairman, haswork investigating I he ( iperation ofLubricators under High Steam-ChestPressure, and other Automatic Appli-ances for Oiling Cylinders and Valves.iii i been 0 much trouble with atic lubricators since steam pres-sures were raised above 140 pounds persquare inch, that exact information, re-ng the failure hi the lubricators todeli i thi oil in the cylinders, is badlywanted, The committee sends out tenqui 110ns to be answered, which will elicitimportant information, if the membithe association do their duty in the
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MOUNTAIN-CLIMBING HEISLER LOCOMOTIVE. men, who has shown by his record that heis not a drone in the hive. It is not intended or expected thatthis help for the apprentices will turnthem out into the world fitted to copewith the problems of mechanical engi-neering; the only object is to put beforethem opportunities to improve them-selves. Some will profit by the opening;others will fail. That is the history of allsimilar moves. Superintendent of Mo-tive Power Morris is laying a foundationfor the future of these boys; it remains forthem to make the most of it. Speeds and Feeds. At the Richmond shops of the Chesa-peake & Ohio Railway, the question ofspeeds and feeds is given the closest at-tention by General Foreman Gould. If yield up more than 20 wheels in 10 hours,until it was speeded up to the limit ofendurance of the cutter, when 50 wheelsper day were forthcoming regularly. Thewheel platform is now constantly filled,whereas, before there was never a wdieelin sight. Driving-box bra

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