. The railroad and engineering journal . pany in Phila-delphia. The Boynton Bicycle locomotive, for a single-rail rail-road, which has been built by the Portland Company in Port-land, Me., was tried recently in that Companys yard, and Issoon to be put at work on a short road, built by its inventor,Mr. Moody Boynton. The shops of the Pennsylvania Company in Fort Wayne,Ind., are building 10 consolidation engines, with Belpaire fire-boxes. Cars. The Pullman Car Company is building in its shops at Pull-man, 111., 200 coal cars for the Colorado Midland Railroad. The Buffalo Car Manufacturing Compan
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. The railroad and engineering journal . pany in Phila-delphia. The Boynton Bicycle locomotive, for a single-rail rail-road, which has been built by the Portland Company in Port-land, Me., was tried recently in that Companys yard, and Issoon to be put at work on a short road, built by its inventor, Mr. Moody Boynton. The shops of the Pennsylvania Company in Fort Wayne, Ind., are building 10 consolidation engines, with Belpaire fire-boxes. Cars. The Pullman Car Company is building in its shops at Pull-man, 111., 200 coal cars for the Colorado Midland Railroad. The Buffalo Car Manufacturing Company is building 150box cars for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, and 200for the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad. The Company Is building an addition to its wood-working shop and a new paint shop. The United States Rolling Stock Company has begun themanufacture of passenger cars in its Chicago shops ; the firstorder is for 27 cars for a Southern road. The Lehigh Car Manufacturing Company at Stemton, Pa., . LEEDS DRILLINGMACHINE. {Patent a///iet/ /or.) remained intact and uninjured. The two cars were so badlyused up as to be unfit for further service, while the buffers willbe transferred to other cars and continued In service. As has been heretofore noted, this buffer Is manufactured bythe Union Switch & Signal Company ; Its essential feature Is, that friction is developed between interlocking sets of thin, plates, and is brought into play as an aid to the regular draftsprings In receiving and absorbing the momentum due toshocks which occur so frequently in the ordinary process ofshifting and making up freight trains, and which are of dallyoccurrence on the road when trains are stopped and started, or are running over undulating grades. Locomotives. The Schenectady, N. Y , Locomotive Works, have taken acontract to build six heavy locomotives for the Cleveland, Co-lumbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis Railroad. The Strong Locomotive, A. G. Darwin, the trial of wh