Title: Engineering News And American Railway Journal
Bound Volume XLIII January-July, 1900

Classification: Magazines Transportation Technology Railroad Engineering

Publication Information: The Engineering News Publishing Company, New York

Additional Information: Published weekly. Issues had a supplement section which included some advertising and Contract Prices. The Supplement sections are missing along with any covers and am not sure what else was in the supplement sections. The main section pages were numbered consecutively and run from 1-432 pages. Then there are large one & two page illustrations in the issues that say supplement to the issue plus a few other illustrations. Detailed index in the front.

Summary: Contents include: Editorial Note, Editorial, Letters To The Editor, Book Reviews, Engineering News Of The Week and feature articles which some included are:
• Combination Ballast and Coal Car; Illinois Central R.R. (illustrated)
• Regulating he Level of the Great Lakes (illustrated)
• Fast Passenger Locomotives; Chicago & Alton R.R. (illustrated)
• A Subway for Pedestrians under Electric Street Car Tracks, Boston, Mass. (illustrated)
• Track Elevation in Chicago, I. (illustrated)
• Buildings for the Pan-American Exposition of 1901 Buffalo, N.Y. (illustrated)
• The Davenport & Rock Island Bridge over the Mississippi River (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• Locating the Center of Gravity of a Locomotive
• The Design and Construction of a Modern Central Lighting System (illustrated)
• The Fort Dodge & Omaha R.R. (Illinois Central R.R. System) (with full page plate and other illustrations)
• Some Recent Electric Freight Locomotives (illustrated)
• The Barren Island Garbage Reduction Works, Greater new York (with two-page plate and illustrations)
• The Peoria & Pekin Terminal Ry. (illustrated)
• 150-Ton Electric Crane at the Imperial Dock, Bremerhaven, Germany (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• Proposed Improvements of the Southwest Pass at the Mouth of the Mississippi (with map)
• New Value Gear for Steam Engines (illustrated)
• Track Elevation in Chicago (illustrated)
• The purification of Water by Ozone
• Twelve-Wheel Compound Locomotive; Chicago & Eastern Illinois R.R. (illustrated)
• A 6-Cu.-Yd. Dipper Dredge for use on the Great Lakes (illustrated)
• New Union Passenger Station at Springfield, Ill.; Illinois Central R.R. (with two-page plate)
• A New Rotary Concrete Mixer (illustrated)
• Falseworks for the Erection of the Manhattan Tower and End Span; New East River Bridge (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• Rolling Lift Bridge at the Boston Terminal; N.Y., N/H. & H.R.R. (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• The Erection of the Boston Elevated Ry. (illustrated)
• The Drainage of New Orleans (illustrated)
• Proposed Plans for Regulating Works for Controlling the Level of Lake Eris (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• Ten-Wheel Passenger Locomotive; Northeastern Ry. England (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• Experimental Water Purification Plant at Philadelphia (illustrated)
• The Langen Suspended Railway (illustrated)
• Oshkosh & Neenah Interurban Electric Ry. (with full-page plate and other illustrations)
• The New Wheel Pit of the Niagara Falls, N.Y. (illustrated)
• Construction of the Mississippi River Extension of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R.R. (with full page plate and other illustrations).
• Pumping Gas under 20 lbs. Pressure from Phoenixville to Rogersford, PA
• Failure of the Great Masonry Dam Across the Colorado River at Austin, Tex. (illustrated)
• Freight Locomotive; East Indian Ry. (illustrated)
• The Failure of the Austin Dam (illustrated)
• A 175-Ft. Counterbalanced Plate-Girder Swing Bridge; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. (with full-page plate and other illustrations)
• The Water Waste and Water Supply of New York City (illustrated)
• The Reconstructed Canyon Ferry Dam, near Helena, Montana (illustrated)
• The Second Fire in the Fireproof Horne Store Building, Pittsburg, PA (illustrated)
• The Disaster to the Water-Power Plant at Hannawa Falls, N.Y. (illustrated)
• A proposed Waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River (illustrated)
• The 15,000-ton Floating Dry-Dock for the US. Naval Station at Algiers, La. (with full-page plate and other illustrations)
• The Switchback Lines of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways over the Cascade Range (with full-page plate)
• The Heaviest Passenger Locomotive Ever Built; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R.R. (illustrated)
• The 3,820-ft. Stone Arch Bridge for the Pennsylvania R.R. at Rockville, PA (illustrated)
• New Union Station for the Pennsylvania R.R. at Pittsburg, PA
• Two Large Consolidation Locomotives (with two-page plate)
• The New Locomotive Repair Shops of the Philadelphia & Reading R.R. at Reading, Pa. (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• The Copper Range R.R. in the North Michigan Peninsula (illustrated)
• Self-Propelling Hydraulic Dredge for the Mississippi River (with two-page plate and other illustrations)
• The Survey of the Mouths of the Yukon River, Alaska (illustrated)
• A System for Signaling for Railways (illustrated)
• New Double 140-ft. Span Sone Arch Bridge for the Fitchburg R.R. at Bellows Falls, Vt. (illustrated)
• And many more articles on railways, bridges and a variety of other subjects.

Condition: Hard cover with leather spine and corner tips, leather is worn, scuffed, rubbed and has bared spots, boards are also rubbed and scuffed. Ex-Lib – usual stamps/marks with name plate inside front cover. Text is basically sound although a couple pages are starting to pull free of the binding, some small tears, few soiled specks, one two-page plate was bound in upside down, couple pages have a little scuffing but everything is readable. Overall it’s a good readable copy with some very interesting illustrations.

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