. Train et train de locomotives : un journal pratique de force motrice ferroviaire et de matériel roulant. L plage fringeavec des palmiers. À l'intérieur des îlots de thelarger, une végétation tropicale luxuriante fleurit et la route, qui suit la plus haute altitude, l'hummock de passage dans lequel poussent des arbres ma-hogany, des palmiers cococoanut, des giganticorchidés et le cactus, la chaux, la banane, l'ananas et de nombreux autres arbres et plantes qui sont étranges et nouvelles pour le voyageur de la temperatzone mais qui sont les sur-sondages naturels de ce chemin de fer des récifs coralaires. Point de chute du Pacifique sud. Sur le

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. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . l beach fringedwith palms. In the interior of thelarger islets a luxuriant tropical vege-tation flourishes and the road, whichfollows the highest elevation, passesthrough hummock in which grow ma-hogany trees, cocoanut palms, giganticorchids and the cactus, the lime, thebanana, the pineapple and many othertrees and plants which are strange andnew to the traveler from the temperatezone but which are the natural sur-roundings of this railway of the coralreefs. Southern Pacific Drop Pit. At the last meeting of the GeneralForemens Association Mr. E. F. Fay, thepresident, when speaking of a trip he hadmade over the Southern Pacific, referredto the shop at Sparks, Nev. He believedit was an almost ideal roundhouse, andat another point on the same line he saidthey have the finest dropjack or, moreproperly termed, drop table, in the coun-try. The drop jack, or table, or pit, re-ferred to is situated at San Francisco andat nine other locomotive stations theyhave the same design of table in use.. HYDRAULIC JACK. END VIEW OF DROP TABLE, AND SIDE VIEW OF TRUCK PLATE. We are able to give some details of thisexcellent shop appliance, through thecourtesy of Mr. H. J. Small, generalsuperintendent of motive power. In the first place, the drop pit itself isa concrete depression in the shop floorwhich is 10 ft. 8]/2 ins, wide, and takesin three of the ordinary round house pits.The walls of the drop pit are 18 ins. thickand the depth of the pit is 8 ft. 7 ins. On the floor of this pit there is a track, 4 ft. gauge, laid with 62-lb rails andcurved to the radius of the rouud houseitself so that the car which runs on thistrack is at right angles to each of theshop pit rails when it is in position underany one of them. This car, or drop table truck, as it maybe called, resembles an engine truck inso-far that it is a four-wheeled vehicle witha strong, heavy webbed steel casting or carries a

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