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Title: Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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all thatthey should be in the matter of cleanlinessand this is borne out by other observersbesides the Wanderer. There was no de-liberate attempt to injure the RailroadBranch of the Young Mens Christian As-sociation, but rather to call attention toone of its defects and possibly to arousethe officers of the association to wipe outthat defect. If the article can only servethe purpose of bringing the one awful ex-ample into the line of hygienic cleanliness,it and even the feeling that it has arousedwill have been well worth while. Andfinally, attention is called to the statisticsoffered and the suggestion is made thatmere volume is not exactly a true cri-terion of the palatability of the millions of meals served, the cleanliness of thethree million beds occupied or the privacygiven to the two million bathers. Thecorrespondent admits that there may befaults and inferentially a possibility ofimprovement, and if this be made, thecolumns of this paper will most willinglyadvertise that fact.
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■I KiME.N r.\l, IIKBI.NE LOCOMOTIXI-.■^WISS FEDERAL R.MI.WAYS minute. It is not surprising that the ma-clime ended its life in a ditch beside thetrack. From that day to this there has beencomparatively little effort to apply thesteam turbine to locomotives. Accordingto the Raihfay Gazette of London, how-ever, a turbine-driven locomotive is nowbeing tried on the Swiss Federal Railways.It is converted from a standard 4-6-0 typeas used on the Federal Railways. Theturbine is reversible and is placed in frontof the smokebox. power being transmittedby 30 to 1 gearing to a horizontal crank-shaft placed above the leading truck, therods of the six coupled wheels being ex-tended forward and connecting with thecrankpin at each end of the crankshaft. The engine is designed for a turbinespeed of 8,000 r.p.m., giving a runningspeed of 49 miles an hour. The boiler isequipped with a superheater and a conden-ser is fitted below it, utilizing water fromthe tender, to which latter it is returnedfor

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