. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed from page ^gj.) THE CAMDEN & AMBOY CRAMPTONS. In 184s President Stevens visited Eu-rope, and saw some Crampton locomo-tives, which excited his admiration. Onreturning to the United States he ad-vised Mr. Dripps to design an engine ofthe same general type with a single pairof driving wheels, 8-feet diameter. Thedrawings were made and the engine wasbuilt by Richard Norris & Sons, ofPhiladelphia. The engine is illustratedin Fig. 43. wise were stayed to outer sheet by bolts,spaced 10 inches ap
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed from page ^gj.) THE CAMDEN & AMBOY CRAMPTONS. In 184s President Stevens visited Eu-rope, and saw some Crampton locomo-tives, which excited his admiration. Onreturning to the United States he ad-vised Mr. Dripps to design an engine ofthe same general type with a single pairof driving wheels, 8-feet diameter. Thedrawings were made and the engine wasbuilt by Richard Norris & Sons, ofPhiladelphia. The engine is illustratedin Fig. 43. wise were stayed to outer sheet by bolts,spaced 10 inches apart. The dome wasvery large, and had a flanged joint nearthecenter of its height; the throttle wasof the old slide pattern, encased in a boxthat was located on top of an arch pipethat went out each side of dome to thechests; there was a dry pipe above thethrottle. The fire door was below and behindthe axle, and the fireman stood in a pit,the bottom of which was on a level withbottom of ash pan, the tank deck beingabout breast high. In the smoke boxthere was a deflecting plate over the tube. THE STEVENS CRAMPTON LOCOMOTIVE.—FIG. 43. The order entered in the Norris booksfor the engine reads: One passenger locomotive for Cam-den & Aniboy Ry. Gauge, 4 ft. gyi ins. Boiler 38 inches diameter, made withspiral seams, to burn anthracite coal, thesteam dome to be put on cylinder partof boiler, with steam pipes leading tosteam chests. Cylinders 13x34 inches horizontal. Cut-off. Worked from an, eccentricoutside of shackle pin. Guides. Of steel with block and heads. Cross-heads. Of wrought iron witlicylindrical journals. Wheels. Two driving wheels 8 feetdiameter. Axles. Axles 6^^; truck wheels withtires 36 inches diameter. Axles 4 inchesdiameter. Tubes. 98, of iron 2 in. diameter; 12in. long. Name, John Stevens; No. 28; triedApril 17, 1849. The engine weighed about 50,000pounds. Both the driving and truckwheels were made of wrought iron, andthe spaces between the spokes filled withwood. T
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