Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1896) (14575046858)

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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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imental locomotive andfound it to be correct. It does not seem to be a philosophicalway of figuring, as one naturally supposesthat the area of both pistons should betaken and the distance calculated throughwhich the pressure on the same is applied.It happens, however, that the formulagives these calculations in condensedform. A—A meeting-place; mixed train onsiding. B—Our flyer at a watering station. C—Water tower and crane. D—A local train. E—Same as F, on other side. F—Two engines met at cross-over,owing to driver disregarding signal;signal cabin knocked down and lyingbeside track. G—Driver, instead of stopping for pilot,ran on and into an unfinished siding.Engine and tender turned over, killingdriver, two firemen and a guard, all ofwhom were on engine. H—Same as G, on other side. i i i The fastest vessel afloat is the Brit-ish torpedo-boat destroyer Desperate,which on a trial trip steamed at the rateof 31.035 knots or 35.7 miles per hour. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 455
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SCENES ON THE EASTERN BENGAL RAILWAY, INDIA. 456 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. Wheeling & Lake Erie Ten-Wheelers. The annexed illustration shows thegeneral appearance of a lot of ten-wheel-ers recently built by the Cooke Locomo-tive Works, Paterson, N. J., for theWheeling & Lake Erie. The leadinggeneral dimensions are: Total weight in working order, 119,000pounds. Total weight on drivers, 91,000 pounds. Total weight on truck, 28,000 pounds. Loaded weight of tender, 80,000 pounds. Total wheel base of engine, 21 feet 5inches. Driving-wheel base, 11 feet. Wheel base of engine and tender, 47feet 9 inches. Cylinder, 19 x 26. Driving wheels, 56 inches diameter. Steam ports, i^s x 18. E.xhaust ports, 3 x 18. Lap, 13-16 inch. Exhaust pipe, single. Water capacity of tender, 3,700 gallons. Coal capacity of tender, 6/2 tons. i i i Railway Discipline in France. In the December issue of LocomotiveEngineering was published an illustra-tion of a very striking accident whichhappened in a railway s