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Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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by the Loco-motive and Carriage Superintendents in committee at theirCalcutta convention in 1901, and again when they met atBangalore the following year. At this latter meeting a pow-erful, in point of talent, sub-committee was appointed to gointo the whole question in detail and to formulate and submita form of classificaion for general approval. The reporteventually published by this sub-committee was, in January,1904, submitted to ballot by the members of the whole Com-mittee, and, in the result, was approved of by a substantialmajority, in fact, with the exception of some suggestionswhich were made with a view to slightly amplify the pro-posed formula, the ballot was practically unanimous. The basis of the formula, as promulgated and adopted, isan expression in use on English Railways in describing en-gines of certain types, and this has been made the numeratorof the Indian expression. The principle is, that the left-handnumerator states the number of free wheels at the learlin:?
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I65taitFound tlo. General Shop Layout, Terminal R. R. of St. Louis. lation has been installed to overcome heating which natur-ally arises in this type of motor. The air is supplied bythree small electric motor-driven fans, through a conduit ofpiping to which each individual motor is connected. Classification of Motive Power on IndianRailways* In view of the numerous patterns of locomotives whichare running on Indian railways, the necessity was recog-nized some years ago by mechanical authorities for theestablishment of an expression or formula which wouldgive, firstly, the type of engine structurally, and, secondly, ♦From Indian Engineering. end of the engine; the second numerator gives the drivingwheels, while the third numerator includes any free wheelsplaced at the trailing end of the engine. When a tank en-gine is being described, a small T is placed after the thirdnumerator, the absence of this letter indicating that the en-gine is a tender engine. It is apparent that this form

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