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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ddition to the listof tools that Mr. Bentley has enumerated for the roundhouse,we have discovered in the past year that a small lathe mount-ed on a wagon that can be drawn to any pit in the roundhouseby a couple of men, and has been a very good investment. Wedrive it with an air motor. With the class of power that wehave we find it necessary very frequently to renew splicebolts in frames and such as that, and this lathe we use forthe purpose of fitting the bolts right on the ground. Say wehave an engine around in the fiftieth stall; we draw the lathearound there, and the bolts are taken there in the rough andare turned and driven in right at the spot. We find that anadvantage over carrying the bolts to some place in the shopand then back again to be tried, and a little more taken offfrom them, and finally driven in where they belong, sometimestight, and sometimes not as tight as they should be.—Mr. D.R. MacBain, before Western Railway Club. no AMERICAN EXGIXEER AND RAILROAD JOFRXAL.
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zo May, 1906. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 171 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROADS EXTENSION TONEW YORK AND LONG ISLAND. Long -Islam) City Power House. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has had plans forestablishing a terminal for its lines on Manhattan Islandunder consideration for a number of years, and at presenthas all parts of the work of tunneling under the HudsonRiver, the Island of Manhattan and the East River and theerection of a very large passenger station in Xew York Cityunder way. The earliest plans for entrance onto the islandcontemplated a bridge over the Hudson River, but thethorough demonstration that electric traction is practical forheavy train units made possible the many advantages of en-tering the city by means of tunnels. The plan, as finallyrounded out and being followed, embraces not only a Pennsyl-vania terminal on the island, but also a through connectionwith New England and the railroad system of Long Island.The first announcement that this plan had been

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