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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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12. Subjects for Convention of 1898—W.H. Lewis (C, B. & N.), Tracy Lyon, C. H.Quereau. ^ i s The engineers and firemen who are run-ning the new Schenectady engines on theNew York, New Haven & Hartford arethe best-pleased men in New England.One of them remarked to the Locomo-tive Engineering man that this is thefirst real, made-a-purpose engine I evergot hold of. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 831 Freight Electric Locomotives. The first electric locomotive of any con-siderable size built in this covintry, andthe first practical electrical locomotive inthe world, exhibited by the General Elec- g-jaranteed speed of this locomotive onthis grade will be seven miles an hourwith a heavy load behind it, but judgingby its performance at the Lynn Worksof the General Electric Company, it will three 96-ton locomotives are engaged inhauling the freight trains through the BeltLine tunnel of the Baltimore & OhioRailroad; indeed, no freight train is hauledthrough the Belt Line tunnel of Balti-
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TRAVERSIXG AIR HOISTS, ARKANSAS CITY SHOPS. A.. T. & S. F. RY. trie Company, at the Chicago Exposi-fion, 1893, having a rated drawbar pull of7,000 pounds, has been purchased by theManufacturers Street Railway Companyof New Haven, Conn. It is equippedwith air brake and is being prepared forshipment from the Schenectady Workswithin a very few weeks. Its total weightis 30 tons, and it will be utilized to haulfreight cars from the junction of the XewYork & New Haven Railway at CedarHill, which is about one mile from theNew Haven passenger depot, to theworks of the Bigelow Company, manu-facturers of boilers, the National PipeBending Company, the Quinnipiac Brew-ing Company, the New Haven RollingMills and other manufacturing establish-ments located along the water front atsome distance from the freight yards ofthe Consolidated road. The freight carswill be hauled directly into the yards ofthe manufacturers, and the loads will becollected by the electric locomotive andhauled to the m

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