The accidents to locomotives and stationary engines and boilers up to this date were 28 , by which 37 were killed and 98 wounded . It is interesting to note that of these 28 accidents , 24 were railroad locomotives and 4 stationary ...
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ISBN: UOM:39015076043838
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ELECTRIC TRACTION NOTES . trouble does not occur in the steam locomotive WITH reference to the electrification of the because any inaccuracy in construction is taken up Chicago , Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway menby the cushioning ...
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ISBN: CHI:105708298
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Considering that tubular boilers of locomotive engines may safely be exposed to less rigorous proof , on the report of our Minister of the Public Works , we have decreed , “ Article 1. — That the boilers of locomotive engines intended ...
Author: William Templeton (engineer.)
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ISBN: OXFORD:590968273
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THE FIFTH ” CLASS , CLASS , L. & N.W.R. 2 7 ch > 1 DUPLICATE LOCOMOTIVES , LOCOMOTIVES ,. of use on One is glad to know that the London and NorthWestern Railway Co. are resuming the time - honoured practice of naming their locomotives .
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ISBN: UIUC:30112088589798
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Thus, when a locomotive has to enter a shed it is first brought to a standstill and not allowed to go inside until all men who may be working there have been warned of its approach. Then, at a walking pace and with its whistle sounding, ...
Author: John Robert Hind
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105041649059
Category: Locomotives
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I CANNOT say just how long it was before the onset and uproar of the Locomotive-God, "glowering on mortals with his hideous face," disappeared from the region skies of conscious memory into the subconscious.
Author: William Ellery Leonard
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ISBN: UOM:39015002964750
Category: Authors, American
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Origin of certain mental maladies traced by psychoanalysis.The performances of the locomotives on the Semmering , and on the Giovi Inclines , seem to be almost equally good , taking into consideration , that on the former , wood was burnt , and on the latter , coke .
Author: Charles R. Drysdale
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ISBN: UOM:39015021048015
Category: Railroads
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Plate XVIII shows a damaged locomotive due to a derailment which killed one person and injured one . This is a 2–8–2 type locomotive equipped with power reversing gear Westinghouse E. T. air brake equipment , Walschaert valve gear ...
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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ISBN: UOM:39015026993504
Category: Locomotives
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF INSPECTOR BUREAU OF LOCOMOTIVE INSPECTION . SEPTEMBER 25 , 1923 . To the Interstate Commerce Commission : In compliance with section 7 of the act of February 17 , 1911 , amended March 4 , 1915 , the Twelfth ...
Author: United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
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ISBN: OSU:32435061959888
Category: Locomotives
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First as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway, and then as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the L.N.E.R., his chieftainship bridges not merely 30 years of great events in the railway world, but has also witnessed a ...
Author: O. S. Nock
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781473358041
Category: Transportation
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