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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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ngine has norazor-like appendage, the entire attentionbeing given to the train. The cars are old ones, with four-wheeltrucks, but are being tested against sim-ilar cars, so there is no discrimination. Mr. Adams, the experimenter, estimatesthat there are 600 square feet of resistingiurface to a train of si.x cars—100 square There is little doubt that the shieldsused by Mr. Adams will reduce train re-sistance to a limited extent, but we areconfident that the saving is so small thatthe extra expense is entirely unwarranted.The most resistance comes from wind atthe side and quarter, and with these theshields only increase surface exposed, al-though it must be admitted that it pre-sents a more regular contour to the wind.We cannot help feeling that the experi-ment is doomed to failure when dollarsand cents are carefully considered. Advertising the Other Fellows Goods. By one of the unaccountable happen-ings which seem to crop out in all kindsof business, and is usually laid to the office
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ADAMS WIND-SPLITTING TRAIN ON THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD—FRONT VIEW. order what you want and pay for nothingelse—a plan that is very popular. Acurious thing about this system is thatthe ordinary traveler will often pay 50per cent, more for his meal than he wouldunder the hard and fast dollar-a-mealplan. Another curious thing about theadvertising of the two roads for patron-age is that the Lackawanna advertisestheir trains as being free from smoke,dust or cinders, a claim that is wellfounded, while the Nickel Plate passengerdepartment publishes a conspicuous posterin which the heaviest clouds of blacksmoke are seen pouring out of the smoke-siack of the locomotive and envelopingthe train. From what we saw duringtwo trips recently made over the NickelPlate, we think the designer of the poster feet to a car. The basis for this assump-tion is not quite clear. He states that at a speed of sixty milesan hour the pull due to this would be10,800 pounds, which is based on the pres-su

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