Identifier: railwaylocomotiv19newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
air of a commander.As you tread your wondering way youmarvel at the multitude of men thateddy and drift like great throngs in acity holiday. On the mighty engines,that seem to blossom into being beforeyour bewildered eyes, the men clusterlike bees. It seems impossible thatthere could be order in all this apparentdisorder, and yet the ponderous ma-chines grow as you look at them. Asquad of men underneath are tighten-ing up the big binders and braces andbrake hangers. Others are at the rock-ers and tumbling shaft blocks. Thespring hangers and equalizers engagethe attention of more. The shiningguides and crossheads are rising intoplace. There are hands setting thecylinder cocks, and keen eyes gleamfrom between the spokes of enameledwheels. There are air hammers rattlinga double tattoo around the smoke box,and others are doing a duet on the de-flector sheet inside. Pipe fitters areperched on the running board braces,and polished pipes are bending andtwisting into fantastic shapes like the
Text Appearing After Image:
COCHRANS STEAM MOTOR, GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY. lowed thunders of Niagara, An armyof more than ten thousand men are atwork. In the sumptuously fitted officesthere is an elegant air of comfortpeculiar to well-managed and prosper-ous institutions. The colored man whotakes your card has the courtesy of a tentacles of a galvanized octopus. Over-head, cranes are passing, and danglinghooks are swinging the dome casinginto place. On the ground, ten feetaw-aj-, from a white pyramid of asbestosblocks, a man is throwing pieces in theair, like pitching sheaves to a high stack 64 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING February, igo6. ir. harvest time, and another is catchingthem in midair and placing them inposition around the lofty boiler shell.The dust is falling in showers from theflying pieces, and the shafts of brokensunshine that stream in fragments fromthe far roof gild the silvery showerinto a golden cloud. Inside the loftyengine cab the burnished brasswork issparkling into place, and

Note About Images