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SAVES MUCH LBOR METHOD O1 "FEEDING" MODERhi LOCOMOTIVES. Matter of a Few Minutes Now Wher Fo-merly Gangs of Workmen and a Lot of Time Were Required. The little details that spell progrest the operation of a railroad are fre quently the most interesting. As an instance, take the "Locomotives' board fng hiouse," as some of the men calr the cnal and sand chute near every roundhouse. Twenty years ao 11 took big crews of men to supply the coal, sand and water-the sustenance of an engine. Now two or three men 4o all this work of "feeding" the en glue before they go out, and do It Is much less time than it used to take. When an engine is ready to go on e sun nowadays it takes only a few-min utes to "feed" it for the trip. When It backs off the turntable to the coal ehute switch it is ready for "dinner." in a big elevator there are hoppera full of coal ready to fall into its tank the 'moment the hostler's assistant pulls a rope. This coal is lifted from. coal cars into the hoppers or chutes by means of an elevator. In the same place the sand drier has a chute that Is filled with dried sand, used on the tracks when the engine's drivers slip. White the coal is being dumped into the tank, the sand drier is filling the sand box, the sand shooting down through a long pipe. In a great many railroad yards the engines can be coaled, sanded and watered without moving the engine from one point. The old-fahlioned wa, ter-tank has given place to standpipes that are stationed in convenient places. An engine has scarcely to be moved to receive every supply needed for a long trip. In the old days It had to go first to the coal yards to be poaled by men with shovels. Then it ustled off to the sandhouse and men passed buckets of sand up to a man who stood on the boiler and poured It Into the sandbox. Then the engine Getting Coal and Sand- Supply. went to the water tank. T<oday it get its full supply In one plaQe In a fee minutes. It used to take-hours to di the same worJ These modera locomotive fteedint devices are anan-savers as well as say era of time. In the .old :days th'e Ilvei .f strong. men 'were shortened by the toil incident to gettig engines readl ~for their rubs. With scoop shoveli every pound o.f oal consumed by the 'oeomotives hbad to be thrown from ook ars to'taink, and it was an every -day occurrence to have engines hur - tfed to tjhe coaling track for a fuei 'suppl when it was then time for the ##ieto depart. That meant tha' Sthe coal heavers had to do the worn of slaves to accomplish what the corn ~ pany expected of them. To-day mech * * anismn sayes the backs of thousands of 'and -roundhouses. The "locomotives rding house" Is managed on the ~ltof a well-regulated dining room e~~'h eld-fashioned way of coaling en was up to date indeed whet W,~Qnpared with that still more remote *yutem-wwood burning. Back in the at4ss when -locomotives were steamed - with wood It was a common occur 34. noe to atop the train out In the wohd bospewhere and train crew and asengets would begin carrying ab to. the engine, filling the tani -4* ttsupacity. It was a case of carry eWqd Or'walk, for the engines con. 's'.ue. so tauch fuel that It was 1m. 'oassbl* to -anakq the tank large ,nou .to 9$g edugh for a long trip Tb 9044w r .118partIes used te 0001 ocis *~t ain bright 4w. er.an4 ev96 'Joiped In the ~ It when the-h1n Winds blew ~Wtbe '~Ja as fella~ #th. poor train th ei s e. nd de ~ 4s~*r -rilroad p when the tfllt enigine *0 14 ented and tid~s on the tor as osased to be C 'wallearly all be paW4the binding ~m~e ~ rlyIn tavoc, are .aths 4t HANDCAMVJ h* DA. 7 The Gasoline Met p t,4 . tim6 . by Strt CiWa Iw A new device whih hassig of put into use o the Pittsb~rt- - But. ler street r4i'foad line s6iinds the death. knell Of the old-izpe handoat This new device is a gasolhiz tuotor ear, or as a matter of fact, an auto., Duobile handear, with cuahioned Seatas and detachable canoby top, and Cap: able of a speed of'40 miles aU bour.' This car, however, is not destined 6 the track repair gangs, but for tli use of the superintendent or bther oM c1alm Of the road making short luspeo tion trips oyer the line, or in cae o, a break in the line, it is to be used byi the The Newest in Haridcars. emergency repair gang for. getting at the "trouble' speedily to make tempo. rary repairs. The company is also buying a trolley repair car with 'a folding tower, with a platform which can, be elevated for the use of the repair gang .when. working on ove. head construction. ARE USING HEAVIER RAILS. Changes Being Made on All Beoian State Railroads. Consul H. A. Johnson of Liege writes that experiments are being car ried on with a view to replacing the rails now In use on the railway lines owned and operated by the Belgian government by rails of heavier weight --a change made necessary by the in creased weight of the rolling- stock.' He writes: "While formerly the maximhum weight of locomotives used on the Bel glan lines was from 40 to 45 tons, the weight of locomotives now in use has doubled, being from 80 to 90 tons, with cars of from 20 to 25 tons in weight. So far the heaviest used are what are known as the Vignole rails, having a maximum weight of 40.65 kilos, or bout 125 pounds a meter (39.37 in, es), A limited num ber of the heav. weight rails, it is true, have already been placed on these lines, but their use is confined to crossings, branchings and switchings only, their weight being 52 kilos, or 114 pounds a meter. 'The weight of the new rail with which experiments are being made is 57 kilos, about 125 pounds a meter. The line selected for experimental purposes, is that from Liege to Ger. nany, the immediate locality of the experiment being on that part of the line between Liege and Welkenraedt, e distance of some 89 kilometers (kilometer 0.62 of a mile), bringing the total length of double track to about~ 60 kilometers, making neces mary the use of something like 6,000 tons of rails. It is obvious that the use of these heavier rails will com. pel correspondint modifications In other appliances on the lines affected by the change." To Sew7 On Bittons. When buttonholes on a shirt waist are finished, sew on upper and lower button. Then button and see that the buttonhole hem evenly overlaps the butto, hem. Lay waist on table; insert a strip of cardboard the length of the waist underneath both hems, and with a tracing whee) gently press into each buttonhole. -Unbutton waist and you have a faint msark where each button is to be sewed without measur ing for each one separately. -* Grated Corn Fritters.. 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