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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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r trust, andwhen the cars are thus paid for they belong to theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. The receiv-ers obtain by lease from the Pullman Company3,000 cars, and the only obligation which they as-sume in relation to these 3,000 cars is to pay a rent-al for them equivalent to ten per cent of their costeach year, for the period of two years, and the in-terest upon the cost for the same time. No equip-ment obligations are issued. The receivers obliga-tion is, therefore, substantially $300,000, being therental payments for two years, and without the is-suing of any car trust obligations. Therefore, thenet result of the whole affair is that the Baltimore &Ohio Railroad Company secures 5,150 cars, and thereceivers obligation for principal amounts to about$300,000, payable in two years. The mileage aloneon the 3,000 cars to be secured from Pullman will beconsiderably greater each year than the interest and principal payments. ***** The Association of Railroad Air-Brake Men will
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A LOCOMOTIVE AND ITS EQUIVALENT IN RAW MATERIAL. It would hardly be realized that the raw material from which a locomotiveestimate made by Mr. F. W. Webb, locomotive superintendent of the Londotypical eight-coupled locomotives. The sketch given above shows the locomotshow graphically their relative values. Our sketch is made from a faint reproWebb, and is not absolutely accurate in detail; but the main story is uevertheeach element going to make up the finished engine, are as follows: Tons. OoaJ 57 Steel scrap 28 Pig iron 24 Scrap, wrought-irou.... 7 Swedish iron 6 Copper ingot 4 Coke 4 cwt. qrs. lbs. 10 0 0 2 3 15 4 0 7 0 0 0 9 0 0 19 1 21 12 0 0 Tons. Spiegel 2 Cast-iron scrap 1 Limestone 0 Block-tin 0 Lead 0 Tile zinc 0 Phosphorous copper. . 0 is made weighs about three times as much as the finished engine. But a carefuln & Northwestern Railway, shows that this is the case—at least with one of hisive in question, with the various raw materials neatly piled up in front of it t

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