. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . wheels as wellas to each of the coupled wheels. The tank engines for that line which are be-ing built by the Vulcan Foundry Com-pany, of Newton-Ie-Willows, general appearance of these locomo-tives can be gathered from the photo-graph. The driving wheels are 67 , cylinders 18 in., totalwheel base 29 ft. loji in. total 1,143 sq. ft., grate area , total working weight 142,000 lbs. Some powerful express engines are be-ing turned out of
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . wheels as wellas to each of the coupled wheels. The tank engines for that line which are be-ing built by the Vulcan Foundry Com-pany, of Newton-Ie-Willows, general appearance of these locomo-tives can be gathered from the photo-graph. The driving wheels are 67 , cylinders 18 in., totalwheel base 29 ft. loji in. total 1,143 sq. ft., grate area , total working weight 142,000 lbs. Some powerful express engines are be-ing turned out of the North British Rail-way shops at Cowlairs, designed to copewith the constantly increasing loads tobe hauled at high speeds over exception-ally difficult sections. It is stated that the de Glehn compound(4-4-2 type) now being built at Belfort,by the Societe Alsacienne de Construc-tions Mecaniques, for the Paris-OrleansRailway, will weigh at least 164,000 working order exclusive of the ten-der, or 18,000 lbs. more than the Nordengines of a similar type. Excellent work is being done on the. POWERFUL TEN-WHEEL PASSENGER ENGINE ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. reason to believe, however, that the Cale-donian engine will hold record for a veryshort time, as rumor has it that thelatest North-Eastern express locomotivewill be of surpassing dimensions. Littleinformation is forthcoming at presentwith regard to the engine, but it has beenstated that it is to be a four cylindercompound on the du Bousquet-de Glehnlines, with two is-inch high pressure andtwo 2S-inch low pressure cylinders. Suchfigures as these are sufficient to indicatethat the provision for steam generationmust be far greater than anything yetseen in Great Britain. Indeed, it is saidthat the boiler will so approximate to thelines of the loading gauge as to leave noroom for any visible cliimney, steamdome or safety valves. In view of theprevailing diversity of practice one pointof interesting speculation is the number,si
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