. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . outside pairs of drivers have flangedtires, the two inside pairs have bald boilers are straight top. 72-inch shelland carry 200 pounds of steam; the fire-box is 120 inches long, 42 inches wideand 60 inches high. There are 321 two- Signals that are Difficult to See. liV J. p. To a person who has observed the vari-ous forms and methods of signalling invogue on the railroads of this country, andis cognizant of the careful and. in somecases, exacting tests applied to dete
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . outside pairs of drivers have flangedtires, the two inside pairs have bald boilers are straight top. 72-inch shelland carry 200 pounds of steam; the fire-box is 120 inches long, 42 inches wideand 60 inches high. There are 321 two- Signals that are Difficult to See. liV J. p. To a person who has observed the vari-ous forms and methods of signalling invogue on the railroads of this country, andis cognizant of the careful and. in somecases, exacting tests applied to detect de-fective vision both as to colors and to dis-tance, it must beapparent that there is con-siderable room for improvement along thelines of proper signalling and correctmethods for testing for color blindness. When some years ago it was first pro-posed to apply tests for color blindness,the matter met with a great deal of justifi-able opposition—not justifiable as to thecolor test simply and solely, but to themethods that it was proposed to adopt inapplying the test: for. as to the color test. l.\ 1LI;_N aul are 8yi by 11 5-16 inches. The enginetruck axle journals are S/^ by 10 boiler, as will be seen, is of the ex-tended wagon top type and is s6]4 inchesdiameter at thefirst course. The 96 inches long and 42 inches wide. Thereare 210 two-inch tubes 13 feet 6}4 incheslong, and provide heating surface square feet. The firebox provides134-73 square feet of heating surface, mak-ing a total of 1, square feet. Thegrate area is. 28 square feet. The enginehas Richardson balanced valves with sAinches travel. The steam ports are l->fiinches wide and 18 inches long, while theexhaust port is 3 inches wide. The valveshave % inch lap and are set line in center of the boiler is 8 feet I0>^inches above the rail and the top of stack15 feet 2S/i inches above the rail. Thetender has Krupp No. i wheels. 36 inchesdiameter and the axle journ
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