Identifier: railwaylocomotiv16newy (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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estern Rail-way Club Professor Flather said: To succeed in railway work one mustlearn the value of thoroughness and hardwork. It has no shifts. It has been said by-product put inside of the boiler. Ayoung man standing on the bank hadwatched these proceedings very interest-edly,, and when he finally saw this manuregoing inside of the boilers he said: Well.I never understood before how it wasihey measured the horse power of aboiler, but now I know. All automatic bell ringer on an engineis a good thing for several reasons.With it in working order the bell is have good lasting qualities and can bereplaced in a few minutes by either ofthe engine crew. The valve gear is ar-ranged so as to prevent any jumping ofthe piston while the bell is making itsstroke. It is a good reliable ringer andwhen it is doing its work continuouslyyou can go into court, if necessary, andtestify surely that the bell was ringing.C. M. Hammett, Troy, N. Y., is the manto write to if you arc interested in bellringers.
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The American Railway Engineeringand Maintenance of Way Association hasissued a pamphlet which containsspecifications for Portland and NaturalCements adopted 1903. The pamphletalso contains the specifications for con-crete, submitted by the Committee onMasonry. Price, 10 cents. 1562 Monad-nock Building, Chicago. J... j.:B*<Al!; St,U5C0.HS 01N E ERIN 0 LONDON, TILBURY AND SOUTHEND SUBURBAN ENGINE. that success is made up of about 30 percent, of knowledge, personal experience,skill and education and 70 per cent, ofhard work. And so it is in the railwayservice, it isnt the shifts that make.suc-cess, but it is the hard work that everyone who attains to the higher positionsmust accomplish. To-day we have greatopportunities given to the engineeringstudent. Our colleges, our technicalschools, our laboratories, our mental train-ing schools are so numerous throughoutthis great country in which we live, thaialmost every boy is familiar with the gen-eral principles of mechanics, and knowswhat

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