Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1902) (14738431916)

Identifier: railwaylocomotiv15newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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wheel typeand has cylinders 19 x 22 inches, drivingwheels 50 inches in diameter, weight ondrivers 56,500 pounds and a total weightof 77.roo pounds. The shell of its boiler work than any other type used at thattime and llic business of making them re-sulted in a larg^ fortune to Mr. Winan^.The Purdue camel-back is differentfrom the original Winans engine, whichhad eight driving wheels and no truck.The Purdue engine also has a shiftinglink motion and injectors, while the orig-inal engines used the hook motion andpumps. The driving tires of the Purdueengine are secured by gibs in addition toshrinkage. The driving springs are usedas equalizers and are not placed centralover the axles. It is of interest to note also that thefirebox of Purdues camel-back extendsentirely back of the rear axle, giving anopportunity to make it wider than thoseboxes which were placed between theframes, after the manner which was com-mon when Mr. Winans lived. It is note-worthy also that the wide firebox with an
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BEFORE THE COLLISION. is 48 inches in diameter. It was built in1868 and is, therefore, thirty-three yearsold. It has been in regular service untilwithdrawn to be put in order for deliveryto the University, after which it madethe trip from Baltimore to Lafayette underits own steam in six days. This engine of thirty odd years ago pre-sents many interesting features, the wholen;achine being in fact designed with wonder-ful skill and ingenuity. The name camel-back, as may be surmised, was given tothe engine on account of the peculiar ap-pearance produced by the large cab onthe central part of the barrel, and of therapidly receding back end, with its stair-case and hand rail on the steeply inclinedfirebox, all of which gave the engine ahumped appearance. It is said that the chief aim of Mr. Wi-nans was to produce a locomotive havinga maximum capacity at a minimum cost,and this he apparently succeeded in ac-complishing, for it is proverbial that theWinans engines did a larger amount of incl