. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . toMr. Pollitt for the excellent photographfrom which the engraving is made. The engine has a remarkably sinooth ap- 95 Liberty Street. New York. July. 1900 The boiler is of the Great Central Rail-way standard, with Belpaire firebox, thecenter line being 8 feet 2 inches above therail. The diameter of the boiler at thesmallest ring is 51 inches, and the lengthbetween tube plates 11 feet 2 inches. Thefirebox is 8 feet long and 4 feet I inchwide outside. There are 200 ij^-inchtubes. The total heating surface
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . toMr. Pollitt for the excellent photographfrom which the engraving is made. The engine has a remarkably sinooth ap- 95 Liberty Street. New York. July. 1900 The boiler is of the Great Central Rail-way standard, with Belpaire firebox, thecenter line being 8 feet 2 inches above therail. The diameter of the boiler at thesmallest ring is 51 inches, and the lengthbetween tube plates 11 feet 2 inches. Thefirebox is 8 feet long and 4 feet I inchwide outside. There are 200 ij^-inchtubes. The total heating surface of theboiler is square feet, and the gratearea is 24 square feet. The total weight No. 7 Prof. Breckenridge, among other things,said: I did not know that Mr. Sinclair wouldbe here, but I am glad that he is. I putin this sentence, thinking of him, but notexpecting that he would be here: Thereare many experienced railroad men whodo not believe that road tests should bemade at all. I actually thought of when I wrote that sentence. Idid so because I have watched his re-. MaJ^^^^-^^^*^ pearance, and will, no doiibt. do fast run-ning when the tram is within its supposed that the time of single driverengines had passed with the advent of thehard-pulling vestibule train, but Mr. Pol-litt no doubt has service where this enginewill do the work better than those withcoupled drivers. The cylinders are ipj^ x26 inches, and the driving wheels 93 inchesin diameter, . the boiler carries 200pounds per square inch, the engine devel-ops considerable tractive power even withthe enormous diameter of drivers. Fig-ured by the Railway Master Mechanicslormula. the tractive power-for starting isabout 18,000 pounds, which is nearly halfthe total weight on drivers to provide ad-hesion. A MODERN SINGLE DRIVER ENGINE. of the engine is pounds. ofthat being on the drivers and 36,500 on theleading truck. The total length of engineand tender is 54 feet 9 inches.
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