Image from page 390 of “The railroad and engineering journal” (1887)

Identifier: railroadengineer64newy
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ot so far mademuch headway in this country, although used to a considerableextent abroad. The storage battery system, which was tried bythe Boston & Albany Railroad, has been abandoned by that Com-pany, but the Pennsylvania Company slill continues to light itsparlor cars from storage batteries, and a similar system has beenadopted by the Intercolonial Railroad of Canada on the throughtrains between Halilax and Quebec. The Pullman Company isusing a combination of dynamo and storage battery, and theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company is using ontwo of its trains a dynamo carried in a separate car. The Southern Pacific Company is now using a large numberof electric switch signal lights in its yard at Oakland, Cal., withmuch success. The electricity is supplied from the plant usedfor lighting the station and pier at Oaklana. An Improved Universal Trimmer. The accompanying illustration shows a universal trimmerfor the use of pattern-makers, coach builders and other wood-

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*«^!? A Wrought-Iron Chimney. The description of a wrought-iron chimney of novel design,which has recently been built at Creusot, France, is of interest.The chimney stands on a masonry foundation, extending 3 ft. 3 in. above the ground, and is an iron tube 279 ft. high, 23 ft. indiameter at the base and 7 ft. 6 in. at the top. The weight ofiron is 80 tons. The shaft was built in successive rings, each 4 ft. I in. in height, the thickness varying from ,-,, in. at thebottom to i in. at the top. The nine lower rings were formedof eight plates each, the upper ones of four plates each. Thebase was encircled by a massive angle iron boiled to the founda-tion. The eight lower tings were lined with fire-brick. Theerection of the chimney occupied 70 days, including takingdown the flying scaffold. The latter was of a somewhat novelcharacter. It consisted of a central wrought-lron tube 7 in. indiameter, and provided at the bottom with four wooden cross-bars or arms, so clamped ihat their length

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