Identifier: locomotiveengine09hill (find matches)
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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ain to rest, in place of on the handbrakes; that he lost time in whistling forhand brakes, and did not repeat thewhistle until he had called the attention New York City and BufTalo passesthrough such beautiful scenery as theLehigh Valley, and it is expected that thisfact will make it a popular route betweenthese two cities. On Monday, the i8th of May, they puton what they call their Black DiamondExpress, a very handsome train, which isshown in our full-page engraving oppo-site. This photograph was taken at Eas-ton. Pa., by Mr. W. F. Blauvelt, the well-known amateur photographer, who hassupplied Locomotive Engineering withso many interesting railroad subjects. i i i Mr. Robert Miller, superintendent ofmotive power of the Michigan Central,has been making tests of the haulingcapacity of locomotives on certain divi-sions, to find out what type of engine isbest adapted for the work to be done.The company intend ordering new loco-motives in the near future. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 457 * # t
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458 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. Damage Done by Worn Tires. There was a very good report on Hol-low Tires read at the last RoadmastcrsConvention. The principal part of thereport reads: The damage to spring-rail frogs fromthis cause consists mainly in batteringand shearing of? the wing and point. Itis on this class of frogs that the greatestdanger of derailment from hollow tiresexists, for in trailing the frog the tendencyof the hollow tire is to crowd the springwing out; the gage is thereby widenedand the result is derailment. Again, each ;ind the general line of the frog to becomeruined, thereby necessitating frequent re-adjustment. .■\s a measure of safety, when hollowtires are allowed to run, the spring railshould be planed down where the tirefirst comes into contact with it; this willallow the wheel to mount the wing with-out so great a chance of the wing beingcrowded out and the engine derailed.There should also be a flaring openingleft at the point, so the flange would bestarted in

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