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Caption: Course Catalog - 1899-1900
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94 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING graphs, blue prints, and samples of manufactured specialties of value to the students of this work. This department now owns, with the P. & E. Div. of the C. C. C. & St. Louis Ry., a fully equipped dynamometer car, No. 609. It also owns, with the Illinois Central R. R., a fully equipped railway test car. These cars have been designed and built for locomotive and railway tests, and they are used for no other purpose. They have been built and equipped with special reference to the following service: 1. Locomotive road tests for economy. 2,. Locomotive capacity tests and measurements of train resistance. 3. Automatic track inspection for line and grade. 4. Air brake service inspection. 5. Stationary plant tests at railway shops and water stations. The department owns a continuous steam engine indicator, apparatus for determining the effect of scale deposits on the transfer of heat through the tubes, as well as considerable apparatus designed and built for various tests of locomotives in actual service. The new railway shops of the P. & E. Div. of the C , C , C. & St. L. Ry. at Urbana furnish exceptional opportunities for inspection of construction and repair work, and the assured aid that this department will receive from the management of these shops cannot but be of considerable value to the student. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION Required for the Degree of B.S. in Railway Engineering First, Second and Third Years Same as the course of instruction in mechanical engineering. Fourth Year 1. Thermodynamics (Mech. Eng'g 7 ) ; Locomotive Engines (Ry. Eng'g 1) ; Locomotive Engine Design (Ry. Eng'g 2) ; Shop
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