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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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n signals andall modern improvements. There has alsobeen added to the freight equipment 4,367cars. The average tractive power of thelicomolivcs has been increased fnim 15.000 of lailroad shop-, as could be found any-wl.e:e in the country. But the increasedsize of eluipment rendered them totallyunfit for handling it, and an almost en-tirely new ecjuipmenl of machinery wasnecessary. IOWKR-IIOISK. In the old e(;uipment of the Blouming-ton shops the buildings and tools con-tained in them were divided into two de-partments, the locomotive and the car de-par.nicnt, respectively; each one of whichwas furnished with power from a largestationary engine, besides a number ofauxiliary engines for each department.The steam for these engines was gener-ated at four different boiler plants. Eachone of these stations had its equipment ofengineer, fireman and helpers. All of thisis now being done away with and in itsplace a large centrally located power-houseis erected, that furnishes by means of elec-
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AN ENGINE OF 1S5S—BUILT BY GEORGE S. GRIGGS. One of the early coaches on the Boston& Providence R. R. There were six ofthem there at first. This one is repro-duced from memory by the late JohnLightner for the Worlds Fair iti. Chicago.This coach was in a smash up and foryears was in the attic of the car shops atRoxlniry. Mass. The B. & P. R. R. prob-jjbly built larger cars to take the place ofthe origmal six. These cars were drawnfrom Dedliam to Readville by horses at•one tiiue. They were designed in 18,54. A correspondent located at Albion.Pa., who does not want to have his namementioned, writes a letter complainingabout the long hours the trainmen arerequired to work on the Bessemer &Lake Erie. If our correspondents waili« well founded, the Bessemer & LakeErie Railroad Company ought to havea lot of extra men, especially engineersand firemen. pounds to 21,000 pounds, and the averageweight of the locomotives has increasedfrom 62,000 pounds to 88,000. The seat-ing c

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