Title: American engineer and railroad journal Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: y truck brakes, means that we are able to lessen thedistance about 1 12 that ordinarily required for stoppingthe train. This is worth consideration for the same reasonthat high acceleration is advantageous as a factor in the savingof fuel, because the maximum speed to be maintained betweenstops in order to make schedule time is lower. A high rate ofretardation must also decrease the possibilities of damage toproperty and loss of life. This is not only true of throughpassenger and suburban service, but of fast freight service, par-ticularly on roads with steep grades. Inasmuch as it is oftenthe last few feet that count most in a collision, the truckbrake should not be neglected. Charles L. Gately. Manager of the Railroad Department ofthe New York Belting and Packing Company, recently re-signed that position to become Manager of the Railroad De-partment of the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Company.with office at 18 Vesey street, New York City. 34 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.

Text Appearing After Image: HEAVY 10-WHEEL COMPOUND PASSENGER LOCOMO-TIVE. U ion Pacific Railway. Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Last month we described the new Vauclain compound, con-solidation freight locomotives, of which sixty have just beenbuilt for the Union Pacific Railway, and we now illustrate oneof twenty 10-wheel compound passenger engines for the sameroad which are the heaviest of their type ever built and verynearly as heavy as the freight engines. They weigh but 1,080lbs. less than the consolidation engines and in heating surfacehave not been exceeded by any engines of the 10-wheel type ofwhich we have record. With this great boiler power combined with compound cyl-inders these engines will unquestionably greatly reduce theamount of double-heading which strong winds, long grades andsevere weather conditions have rendered necessary on thisroad. The engines seem to have the characteristics of theBaldwin design throughout, which was probably done to givethem every advantage in the first use of

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