. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . New 2-8-4 Type Freight Locomotive Designed and Built by Lima Locomotive Worl<s, Ir. , Bailer Showing Rounded Corners of Firebox and Indented Smoke Box for Ai nd Feed Wate ]>redecessr)r^, it seems tfi have Ix;en quite ecli])scd by thislatest output which was developed as the result of carefulobservation of the j^erformances in service fit the Si>.8000. A comfjarison of the general flimensions of the twolocomotives, that is of the No. STKtO (2-8-2) and the new2-8-4, shows that the weig
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . New 2-8-4 Type Freight Locomotive Designed and Built by Lima Locomotive Worl<s, Ir. , Bailer Showing Rounded Corners of Firebox and Indented Smoke Box for Ai nd Feed Wate ]>redecessr)r^, it seems tfi have Ix;en quite ecli])scd by thislatest output which was developed as the result of carefulobservation of the j^erformances in service fit the Si>.8000. A comfjarison of the general flimensions of the twolocomotives, that is of the No. STKtO (2-8-2) and the new2-8-4, shows that the weight on the driving wheels of thelatter have been increasefl onlv 200 lbs., or from 248,000 an increase of 331 sc|. ft. of superheating surface, givinga total of 863 sci. ft. in the combined evaporativeanfl su])erheater surfaces. .i! linally the grate area hasbeen raised from sq. ft. t(i 100 sq. ft. Putting this in the form of j)ercentages there has beenan increase of 12 per cent in the evaporative heatingsurface; f)f 18 i)er cent in the sujjerheater surface; ofISyi [>ev cent in the combination of the two, and 50 per 130 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING May, 1925
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