Identifier: railwaylocomotiv15newy (find matches)
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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for success in life tothe diligent depends on what you are in- ^This is approximate, not demonstrated. Selection of Trainmen for Queen andCrescent System. The Cincinnati, New Orleans & TexasPacific Railway Company have adoptedthe practice of selecting firemen andbrakemen from men already in the com-panys service. This gives the opportunityof advancement for trac.cmen, shop help-ers, bridge laborers and others of thatclass. Before being accepted for what isregarded as superior positions, the menhave to pass an examinatian to prove thatthey have the education required, andcare is taken to see that they have thenatural intelligence required for goodtrain men. If they are accepted they aresent out for a few trips to learn the roadand to become familiar with the workthey are intended to perform. Before be-ing put on the list of employees they areagain examined on signals and other sim-ple matters, which is a good test of theirintelligence. June, 1Q02. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
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263 Delaware, Lackawanna and WesternConsolidation Enjcine. Our illustnai.,,, oi the anthracite burn-ing consolidation engine represents atype that ,s in satisfactory deration onhe Lackawanna. It is an engine em-bodying the principal features and stand-ards so long preserved on that road to-gether with the modern touches whichg.ve evidence of the progressive ideas ofthe designer and builder in meeting thereriu.rcments of the road. The engine i.sdesigned to burn the fine anthracite coalso abundantly mined on the Lackawannaline. This requires an immense grate94.9 square feet, which, with the heatingsurface provided, 2,772.83 square feetmakes a successful and economicalsteamer, when the character of the fuels considered. In this connection the ac-companying description will be of in-terest. The engine is one of the recentproductions of the Schenectady works ofthe American Locomotive Company, whohave also built for the same railroadwithin the past year some heavy eight-wheel passenger engi

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