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Description: Identifier: locomotiveengine10hill (find matches) Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock Year: 1892 (1890s) Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 Subjects: Railroads Locomotives Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.) 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: rking of the railways in the UnitedKingdom on mobilization and in timesof national emergency, and on questionsrelating to the transport of troops andstores by rail. The Council will meet atthe War Office when required to do soby the Secretary of State, and duringmobilization it will sit continuously. Itsduties will be generally to advise the Sec-retary of State on railway matters, andalso to draw up a detailed scheme for themovement of troops. In addition to act-ing as an ordinary body, it will be a me-dium of communication between the WarOffice and the railway companies. Themajority of the members belong to theEngineer and Railway Volunteer StaffCorps, a valuable organization which hasexisted since i860, and which numbers inits ranks the general managers of manyof the large railway systems in the UnitedKingdom, and several well-known anddistinguished civil engineers. The Coun-cil also includes all the military inspectorsof railways under the Board of Trade. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 611 Text Appearing After Image: WEST POINT FOUNDRY, WHERE FIRST AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE WAS BUILT. 612 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. West Point Foundry. The old West Point Foundry at ColdSpring. N. V.. lies huddled between thebills which surround it on three sides,with tin Hudson river on the west, andopposite the military school, from whichit takes its name. It is one of the mostinteresting plants in this country, by re ison of its age as well as the part it took inthe events transpiring between the years1861 and 1865. Mr. Gouveneur Kemble was the or-ganizing spirit of the movement to locate (the foundry at this place, and he movedthe small belongings of his New York i -ton,, brick and wooden structuresgives but an imperfect conception of themagnitude of the ground covered by theslops, for the reason that they are builtin long, parallel rows, and no one pointcan In- found that will put all of themon the ground glass of the camera. Thoseshown, however, comprise the better partof the plant which consists of seveni. undries and Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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