Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1897) (14761645125)

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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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e feet. Water capacity of tender—2,600 gallon \\ heel-base of drivers—14 feet 8 ini hi Wheel-base of engine truck—5 feel 6inches. Wheel-base of tender—13 feet. Total wheel-base—48 feet qJ4 inches. Total length over buffers—57 feet 10)4inches. Weight on truck—27,552 pounds. A Grinding Rig. All kinds of dodges are practiced in avoid the exer- 111 grinding heavy jobs. and dry pipe joint I em to call out the inventive faculties, and the man iiial to the task of getting the wherewith to grind them, without taking the energy out of his own vital forces is the exception rather than the rule in the average shop. We have noted several ingenious schemes of the kind that have done the work well without involving any serious expense in the rig. Among these is one we saw at work inthe Great Northern shops at St. Paul.The movement to the dry-pipe, whichwas chained in vertical position, wasobtained from a No. 3 Wright steampump, from which the pump valveshad been removed, and which was
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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. TEN-WHEEL FREIGHT ENGINE. surface not to be obtained with the insideframes, and heating surface at that endis where it is needed. The dimensions ofsteam ports will be seen to be a wide de-parture from American practice, which,for a 20-inch cylinder, would be at leastfour inches longer than given for this en-gine. General dimensions of the enginewill be found below: Type of engine—Simple. Cylinders, diameter and stroke—20 x 24inches. Steam ports—14 x 2l/i inches. Exhaust ports—14 x 3;^ inches. Driving wheels, diameter—54 inches. Engine truck wheels, diameter—32inches. Boiler, diameter at small ring—54 inches. Boiler pressure—165 pounds. Weight on drivers—105,728 pounds. Total weight of engine and tender—20S.320 pounds. Hight from rail to center of boiler—7feet 8-)4 inches. This engine will exert a draw-bar pullof 23,700 pounds under almost any con-dition of the rail, with her ratio of ad-hesion to traction power of nearly 4.5, aproportion th