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Popular Science Monthly 



Note the engine cylinders under the tender. They increase the drawbar pull of the engine irom 

 forty-six thousand pounds, which is the power of the ordinary engine, to sixty-four thousand 



Putting Driving Wheels Under the 

 Locomotive Tender 



TO climb a steep stretch of track sixty- 

 nine miles long on the Southern Rail- 

 road between Asheville, N. C, and Hayne, 

 S. C, seven giant locomotives, with driving 

 wheels under the tender as well as under the 

 cab and boiler, are used. This novel ar- 

 rangement makes it possible for a single 

 engine to have no less than sixteen driving 

 wheels, giving it a tractive power much 

 greater than that of the ordinary locomotive. 

 By mounting tender-tanks upon the 

 machinery of discarded locomotives, and 

 by utilizing the frames, cylinders, wheels, 

 axles, side-rods and valves of scrapped 

 engines, the expense involved was reduced 

 to its lowest terms. The tender has its own 

 pair of cylinders, and flexible piping carries 

 the steam from the main boiler. The 

 "duplex engine," as it is called, has a 

 drawing power of sixty-four thousand 

 pounds, as against forty-six thou- 

 sand pounds for the single en- 

 gine formerly used. The 

 speed of this type of en- 

 gine is also propor- 

 tionately greater 

 than that 

 of other 

 types. 



A Little Bit of Egypt on a California 

 Ostrich Farm 



WHAT! Has the hand of the West 

 desecrated and commercialized the 

 historic pyramids of Egypt? Does the 

 over-decorated entrance shown in the 

 illustration below, with its advertising 

 signs printed in English and just visible 

 behind one of the columns, mean that the 

 ancient Pharaoh has been ousted from his 

 last resting place? Not necessarily. A 

 second glance at the photograph will doubt- 

 less reveal the fact that the object is only a 

 small building with pyramidal outline and 

 decorations suggestive of Egypt. 



It is used as an exhibition room on an 

 ostrich farm in California. Here the 

 ostrich breeding industry is explained in 

 detail to the interested visitor, and ostrich 

 plumes are sold. The effect is 

 picturesque and thoroughly 

 Egyptian, especially when 

 the ostriches are taking 

 their exercise over the 

 grounds. Ostricji eggs 

 are also sold here. 

 \ They are consid- 



ered rare dain- 

 ^v^^ ties by epi- 



cures. 



An exhibition room in California, where the products of an ostrich farm are displayed. 

 It borrows its construction from the Pyramids and symbolic structures of ancient Egypt 



