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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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e pump regu-lator. The moment the supply is drawndown it lets the accumulator head lower,and the pump will be automaticallystarted again. The accumulator system does away withthe necessity for providingvery large storage tanks, andis especially useful wherecrowded for room. The separate engraving willshow the details of the valuethat regulates the compressor. An improvement in car coup-lers has lately been patented byHarry C. Buhoup, of Chicago,and assigned to the JanneyCoupler people. Mr. Buhoupia representative of the McCon-way & Torley Co. in the West,and has invented several usefulappliances for cars. His latestinvention is for supporting thecoupler pin in an unlockingposition—an operation whichis performed in a sim-ple and ingenious fash- -ion. The Canadian Gov-ernment has intro-duced an eight-hoursystem into all officesand works that are un-der its control. The Martin Anti-Fire Car Heater Co.,of Dunkirk, N. Y., has been absorbed bythe Consolidated Heating & LightingCo.
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462 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. A Substitute for the Pinch Bar. Mr. F. C. Emery, of Wilmerding. Pa.,writes as follows: While paying a visit to the A. V. Ry.shops at Verona. Pa., a short time ago, Isaw in operation a device that, to me, wasespecially commendable. How many of your machinist readersare to-day stoop-shouldered from havingto pinch an engine around over theshop (and yard), setting her valves? Mr. J. C. Glass, master mechanic, hasobviated this trouble in a way that is ap-plicable to all shops that are not alreadyequipped with some device for this pur-pose. He mounts the main driver of theengine on four rollers, adjustable to anywheel—a device familiar to many; but tothe ends of the shafts passing through The Illinois Central Repair Shops. Railroad men interested in engineeringestablishments, visiting Chicago, havegenerally considered that the most inter-esting place to be seen in the neighbor-hood was the Pullman Car Works. Ifthey are wisely advised now, they will goand see th

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