Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-25
AS TO STEAM HEAT.
Why Railroads Protest Against
Proposed Legislation.
VERY DIFFICULT RAILROADlNG,
How the Bitter Cold in the North Affects TraI.
lie Caution as TO Clerical Permits
Guides Other Railroad News
OF Interest.
ARnUT SrEAM nEArING-

There i, Nmc tnlE OF including IN the
legislation proposed, compelling p hrOnds
tp use automatic vouplcrs and air brakes,
law compelling them also tu llsis steam
for heating the passenger coachc b. as u
means of protection against lire IN case ot
accident There are few ncddpu ~ which
occur I'm the winter that 10 not result I'm
the burning up of passengers 'who are
pinned fast In the wreck. Ths wrecked
cUrs catch tire from Tie stoves aud the
poor victims are burned TO death before
they can Ice rescued.
The railroads hive boon In ty the last
few years cNperimentng nth various
methods of heating the COl e los steam,
hut so far The plan has not Iccn fully sat
lN'NciutN. Every system c. bed so far has
had drawbacks, and there are hat few
cases where 10 rs safe t'N abandon the
stoves, even though steam in used. FIRE
qucuuy some pare oi the apparatus giyes
out, or refuses Co work and the ear Is
left In the cold, except " hcr, lire is kept
going ia the stoves, Il be most Improved
and satisfactory systcwi Is tIt operation ON
one ot the western roads The steam
for heating the train g. not taken from
the engine as Is cjlst hnary, bui is manu-
featured especially ior The purnesi, In a
separate boiler. ~ Az boiler AZ 6xed ON a
ear of lbs own aud Is attached jumesli0tc-
ly behind the tunF car of The engine and
appears us a sccu nd tender
During the eN ircmc cold weather of
the past week more steam heating OF
trains has been : failure, The steam has
actually frozen IN the pipes Nhe trccz
ing takes place az the COUPLINGS ot the
pipes. which nro most exposed 90 the
weather Ihy ,rtideusr lion ot the steam
rs naturally nrprc rapid al the points of
greatest eAi h6ulp, and during the cold
weather NJ ioiuN lave frozen up tight
So That IN Nshort time not particle of
steam Eelsl farther back than HE engine.
Probably no company has dome more
cApeum mt,ng with steam beating APP
params, than the Pennsylvania railroad.
The 0hiciuls acknowledge tbpt IL has not
been entirely satisfactory SO far aud chat
there vet renaln mImy improvements 10
bc made to bring Il 70 q degece OF pcrfcc-
q N thnt Will cause II la neen the require
nssuts They are now wofSing on u
me .hOd of reio' ms the 6ticulty of
rVelhg, aud az ohtainiug great
enough pressuU 10 force lhc steam
through the entg,e circuit OF rtpes, sO that
Il can Be exhausted properly without ~
great condensation
Ia view 81 these things Che railroad
| companies seriously object 10 being com
polled by Negotiation "a 80 10 the expense
Of fully rsuinpng their trains with appa.
| rntus that Is mot as yci satisfactory, espe
culll sli - ulcy am all STRIKING Ia hiring
The mattbr " steam heating % a required
I,degree 81 ierfection They claim that
they an, expanding large 50 "a az money
| IN this work ~ experimenting. and that
! they Wal be- as glad as anybody when all
! trains can abolish the stoves For ihi,
| reason "a hl us 70 be- pushed IA, law Va n
mnifpl, thaN IS belng done as fast ~ posi-
ble Ysiouarily