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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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arries steam at 180lbs. per sq. in., and the fire grate has anarea of 30.75 sq. ft. The weight in run-ning approximates 224.000 lbs. with ten-der. From Kayat to Lanovli, the climb is con-tinuous, the ruling grade being i in 40 andup this the train is hauled by two eightcoupled saddle tank locomotives with cyl-inders 18x26 ins. and drivers 48 ins. diam- 488 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING November, 1904. eter. There is a reversing statimi at 7554miles, necessitating a stop of 4 minntes,while the engines run round the train andattach at the rear to continue the journe3to the summit. The time allowed on thissection is 50 minutes, and the distance 17miles. Locomotives are again changed at lectcd, and this fight with the elementscaused an extra outlay to get trains overthe road in the hard weather. U hassince ta.xed the resources of the motivepower and car departments to put therolling stock in good shape again, andat the same time do the ordinary busi-ne-s of the summer months. In many
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ipf Us kind, has a hump in the centerfrom which tracks slope in both direc-tions. There are to be twenty-threeclassification tracks on the east andeighteen on the west. Cars are pushedin the desired direction over the humpand descend into the classificationtracks by gravity. The main lineswitches and signals for this yard willbe operated from a signal tower whichhas lately been installed. The yardwill be equipped with all necessarybuildings and appliances for doing workrapidly and economically. Mortar was made by the people ofTahita when our ancestors were shiver-in.a; in holes in the rocks. They divedinto the sea. brought up lumps of coral,liurned them in pits, using wood as fuel,andmixed the lime they got in this fash-ion with sharp sand and water. With thismixture the ingenious savage plasteredthe walls and floors of his house, and aletter mortar could not be obtained. ■*»MHM8!g; P.^RLOR C.\R—GKK.\T INDl.W IKNl.NSlI..^ R.^II.W.^N, Lanovli and a four coupled bogie exprc-^sbacks

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