Discussing all the news and information that was valuable to railroads and the men who ran them ovewr 100 years ago, republished on a Gift Quality CD.

This {500+} page issue includes such articles as:

:: A study in locomotive fire-box

:: American practice in block signalling

:: Boiler design

:: Corrosion of steel cars

:: Combination Gondola and side dump hopper car, C.,B.&Q Railway

:: Cost of overloading locomotives

:: Cleaning locomotives

:: Ethics of the engineering profession

:: Express passenger locomotive, New York Central & Hudson River R.R.

:: Light the track

:: Safety appliances

:: Tube railways projected in London

:: European express locomotives

:: The national steel platform

:: Large locomotive fire-boxes

:: The relative advantages of ordinary and compound locomotives

:: How to improve headlights

:: Locomotive fire pump

:: Roundhouses

:: Remarkable locomotive mileage

:: The explosion of a locomotive at Westerfield

:: An idea in steam gauges

:: Modern locomotive practice-crank axles

:: Heavy Ten-Wheel compound passenger locomotive with wide fire-box - Lehigh Valley Railroad.

:: Three-cylinder compound locomotive

:: Express locomotive with auxiliary driving axle

:: Skipping tests of air brakes

:: The confusion of types

:: The Erie's six-wheel switching locomotive - wide fire-box

:: The use of liquid fuel in locomotives

:: The unnecessary waste of revenue in handling cars according to initials

:: The Black Diamond Express

:: The education of railroad men for subordinate positions

:: Twelve wheel wide fire-box freight locomotive

:: Testing the vacuum automatic brake

:: The Dangers of spring balance safety valves

:: Water that is too pure for feeding boilers

:: The coupler and draw gear questions

:: Locomotive nomenclature

:: Hundreds, of photos, illustrations and diagrams!

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