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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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some extraneous ma-terial for the same purpose. One time asteamboat had been built on the Hudson,had been finished and equipped with itsmachinery and the boilers were ready tofire. At the last moment a two-horseteam drove up with a by-product of alivery stable and dumped it on board theboat: the man-hole was removed and the rung continuously, so that when betweenstations there is no road crossing buthears the bell. The firemans attentionis not distracted looking after the bell The fourth index of the technical presshas corne to hand. It is four times thesize of the first issue. The relerences arein English, French and German. Theprincipal articles which are of general in-terest, taken from the technical journalsof the world, are catalogued under appro-priate heads. The book is published bythe Association de la Presse Technique,20 Rue de la Chancellerie, Brussels, Bel-gium. The Lincoln & Williams Co., Taunton,Mass., successors to the Lincoln &Wood Co., have purchased the large
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GREAT WESTERN HEAVY EXPRESS ENGINE. and the engineer need not worry, theringer just takes the responsibility offtheir shoulders. An exceedingly goodringer which knows how to keep thebell busy is the Sansom bell ringer. Itis operated by compressed air and ithas its valve motion outside the cylinder,with a plug valve held in place by aspring and the stroke of the bell canbe adjusted by nuts on the valve rod.The piston has a leather packing ringand a leather cup on the bottom, which factory building formerly occupied bythe Atlas Tack Corporation, and willcontinue in it the manufacture of twistdrills. The new concern has availablemore than 30,000 feet of floor space, andwill make extensive improvements intheir property. The plant will be newlyequipped with up-to-date appliances. We must trust and hope, and neitherdoubt ourselves, nor doubt the good inone another.—Chimes. Novfinber, lyo.i RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVF. ENGINEERING 517 Signals and Signaling. IIY GEUlUil: a. IIDUGINS. Historical

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