This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...while the front and rear resistances amount to as much as 59 per cent. of the total tractive effort. The possible saving due to shaping the ends is thus 32 per cent. The Author desires to express his thanks to Mr. Barbier of the Northern Railway of France, to the Engineers of the Great Western, the London and North-Western, the Lancashire and Yorkshire, the Great Central, the Bengal-Nagpur, and the New York, Ontario and Western railways; also to Mr. S. Warner, of the Carriage and Wagon Department, London and South-Western Railway, Processor Goodman, and to the Baldwin Locomotive Company for so fully replying to his inquiries and assisting him with data and information. The Paper is accompanied by drawings and sun-prints, from which Plate 4 and the Figures in the text have been...