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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv19newy
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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Text Appearing Before Image: 33 Safe Boilers. By R. Atkinson 8 Shop Appliances: ♦Pneumatic Drill Adjunct 20 •Reliable Air Hoist 32 Shop Forces, Organization of 30 Steel Flat for Canal Work 38 Surpri^e Tests 49 Tire Turning. By Geo. S. Hodgins 36 Walschaert Valve Gear 46 RfiSK^rEiKineeriiK Copyright by Angui Sinclair Co.—1906 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XIX. 136 Liberty Street. New York. February. 1906 No. 2 Automatic Train Stopping. matic stop signal idea has been worked more or less barbarous device because, The automatic stop signal idea is out in many forms, and the Patent in order to compel a stop being made, growing in favor with many railroad Office has heard from a great many in- it puts the train ofT the track, and while men, and the public is waking up to the vcntors in that field, but the end and it certainly halts the disobedient cngi- fact that railroad travel is not by any dhjcil nf all their efforts is to make a neer. it may po<:«itily injure inuorent

Text Appearing After Image: BOSTON ELEVATED AUTOMATIC SIGNAI, IN POSITION TO COMPEL A HALT.—WHEN I SAY STOP, I ME.AN STOP. means as safe as it can be made, and allthe while the chance-taker, by thewrecks he causes, is constantly call-ing attention to the need for some de-vice which will catch him up and showhow terribly dangerous he is on a mod-ern railway, and do it before he i? ableto destroy life and property. The auto- stationary danger signal practically sayto an engineer, You stop now or I willstop you, and to enable the signal tofollow up its danger indication by posi-tive and eiTective action. The derail is a device which had itsorigin in the necessity for enforcingobedience to signals, but the derail is a passengers. In this sense its action isillogical because, in order to avert dan-ger of one kind, it introduces danger inanother form. The important point,however, is that this device is intendedto enforce obedience in a particularcase. A member of the Railway Signaling 52 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGIN

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