The railroad and engineering journal (1887) (14572077908)

Identifier: railroadengineer63newy (find matches)
Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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hehigh pressure engine. From the same pump shaft are alsodriven two feed and two bilge-pumps, having gun-metalplungers 8 in. diameter and iS-in. stroke ; one of the latteris arranged to work as a sanitary pump, to circulate waterthrough the water-closets and urinals when the enginesare at work. The various levers for handling these en-gines are brought together on a level with the main deck,immediately in front of the high-pressure cylinder, enablingthe engineer to have a good view of the engine. The paddle-wheels are on the feathering principle, over-hung and supported by cast-steel slings under the plum-mer blocks and wing brackets on the ships side. Theyhave inside rims, and are 17 ft. diameter to the axes of thertoats. There are nine floats in each wheel curved on thedriving face, with (langes at the ends as designed by Mr.Stroudley for the steamships Brighton and Victoria, builtby Messrs. John Elder & Company, for the Brighton Com- Vol. LXIII, No. 5.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 217
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