Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1901) (14574570449)

Identifier: railwaylocomotiv14newy (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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t shown by the GeneralElectric Company. They had two gener-ators and two motors, which were used todrive a large Belts boring mill at the oneend and a Buffalo Forge fan at the other.The boring mill was part of the exhibftof Manning. Maxwell & Moore. Mr. S. A. Crone, of New York, ex-hibited a side bearing for freight cars,which attracted considerable attention. Itis an oval roller held in position by teeth cast on iho ends, which engage with re- That Nortons Bail-Bearing Jacks dothe work claimed for them is evidencedby the many words of praise bestowedon them al the exhibit. Manning. Maxwell & Moore, of NewYork, exhibited three Hancock inspirators,one of them being a composite. Theyalso showed a variety of check valves andother boiler attachments. Also a smallinspirator for stationary boiler purposes. Everyone gets off the track once in awhile. To those persons we would ad-vise some .sort of replacing device—possi-bly a Handy Car Equipment Company Replaccr would do the trick.
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A FRENCH FREAK. hibited by the Chicago Pneumatic ToolCompany, was exceedingly attractive, es-pecially so at night, as its brilliant rayslit up the exhibition grounds. We imder-sland that the headlight has not yet beentested on a locomotive, but it is safe topredict its success, it being backed withthe push and energy of J. W. Duntley. An apparatus which attracted a greatdeal of attention among the exhibits wasthe McCord spiral spring damper. Thedamper consists of cast-iron base and tubecut in two, which is put inside of a spiralspring and causes enough friction to takeaway the excessive resiliency of that formof spring. With the damper in use a cesses on the upper pan of the bearing.He also has what looks like to be a verygood dust guard. Also a kind of nut lock. St. Louis Car Company exhibited speci-mens of their spiral car bearings, whichnow they control and are applying to thecars they build and are taking large quan-tities of orders for same from other carbuilders. Rogers & C