. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . its progress in the service ofman. In conclusion, several points of special interestmay here be mentioned. Trevithicks locomotive aquarter of a century earlier had hauled ten tons ofiron and seventy passengers, but had not proved acommercial success; whereas Stephenson demon-strated that the railway was capable of earningdividends for those people who would investmoney in the new undertakings. Concerning the engines, it is doubtful whether,but for some trifling defect, Hackworths Sans-pareil would not have been the victor at theRainhill i trial.
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . its progress in the service ofman. In conclusion, several points of special interestmay here be mentioned. Trevithicks locomotive aquarter of a century earlier had hauled ten tons ofiron and seventy passengers, but had not proved acommercial success; whereas Stephenson demon-strated that the railway was capable of earningdividends for those people who would investmoney in the new undertakings. Concerning the engines, it is doubtful whether,but for some trifling defect, Hackworths Sans-pareil would not have been the victor at theRainhill i trial. In any case it contained a mostimportant principle; its driving wheels werecoupled, and on this subject much will be said inlater pages. The Rocket was an outside-cylindered engine ; but in the Planet Stephen-son placed the cylinders inside the frames ; and thedriving wheels were in front of the fire-box insteadof being attached to the smoke-box end of theboiler. For quite fifty years British locomotiveswere but variations of the Planet Eccentric :Rcc ( Expansioif Lick. 38. Driving WIicpI Weight. c Rod {Fore Gear). I 43, Sand ! Coupled IJlhetl Splasher;Coupled Btie-I J. ATLANTIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVE. Fire 51. Fire Box Tube Plate. 52. Fire Box Crown. 53. Fire Box Crown Sling ^. Fire Box Water Space. Regulator Slide Valve , Reversing Wheel., Reversing Reversing Rod (iiit , Live Steam Injector, CHAPTER IV THE CONSTRUCTION OF THELOCOMOTIVE TO tlie casual observer the locomotive-engineappears to be the most complex thingimaginable, but when all is said and doneit is but a steam-engine upon wheels. With afull grasp of what was explained in Chapter II., weought not to experience much difficulty in under-standing a very great deal of the monster thathurtles along the gleaming metals at the rate ofsixty miles an hour. At the outset it may besaid that a locomotive consists of three parts : inthe boiler and fire-box is generat
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