[CBQ] Improvements a la 1887

["Rupert & Maureen" <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz>]

>From the Railroad & Engineering Journal of 1887

 

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Improvements

Hereafter, as engines pass through the shops of this road for general repairs, 
they will be equipped with the extension smoke-box front and straight stack.

In view of the constantly increasing fruit traffic, the shops at Aurora have 
begun building some cars to be placed in this special service, running them in 
passenger trains. [These would become 40000-40014 outside length 27' 5 ½" and 
40,000 lb max]

The dining-cars of this road are being fitted with a patent window-screen 
which, it is claimed, catches all dust and cinder of every kind.

Two of the car-shop?s transfer-pits at Aurora are to be fitted with electric 
power transmission. The Yale & Towne Company, of Stanford, Conn., and the 
Edison Electric Light Company, of Chicago, will supply the apparatus.





Rupert Gamlen

Auckland NZ


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