The railroad and engineering journal (1887) (14755425171)

Identifier: railroadengineer63newy (find matches)
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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nder, thus giving full opening with a short stroke, andthe reduction to a minimum of the space to be filled with steamat each stroke. Vol. LXin. No. I.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 43 Marine Engineering. The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes a list of new vesselsunder contract for service on the Lakes to be built during ihepresent season. The total is 59 ships, with a carrying capacityof 100,950 tons, and to cost about $7,124,000. Last seasonthere were built 60 vessels, with a capacity of 108,525 tons, andcosting $8,325,000. In the yard of Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia, work has been Manufacturing Notes. The contract for the tools for the new machine shops of theLouisville & Nashville Railroad at Decatur, Ala., has beentaken by Manning, Maxvfell & Moore, of New York. The Missouri Iron Roofing & Corrugating Connpany in St.Louis is very -tTusy, having made large sales of its iron roofingand siding in the South and Southwest. The Cincinnati Corrugating Company has recently issued a
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begun on a new steam-tug 102 ft. long, 20 ft. beam and 10 ft.depth of hold. She will have a triple-expansion engine withcylinders 14 in., 2i in. and 36 in. diameter and 28 in. stroke. A NEW steam-tug for Baltimore Harbor, just completed atthe yard of John H. Dialogue cS: Company, Camden, N. J., is106 fl. long, 21 ft. beam and 11 ft. hold, of iron, the platingbeing -j^- and + in. The engines are triple-expansion, withcylinders 13 in., 21 in. and 32 in. diameter and 24 in. stroke.They will have about 150 lbs. working pressure of steam. circular giving a number of striking instances of long life ofcoriugated iron roofs under trying circumstances. The Bethlehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, Pa., is nearlyready to start up its new steel plant, which has been built chieflyfor the purpose of making heavy forgings for guns and armor-plates. The first work done will be on the forgings for the8-in., lo-in., and 12 in. gnns for the Navy. The Sioux City Foundry «& Machine Works, Sioux City, la.,r