. The locomotive engineer . thick, and farenough apart to have the equalizers and springshung between the plates and out of sight. Nowedges were used except on the main box, andthis was in front, insteiid of behind. The slack liad an extension instead of the front,and such cinders as would not go through the nettingfound their way into the trap and could be dumpedout. The side rods had no knuckle joints, but were inthree short, solid-ended pieces. The whole back ot the fire-box was doors, andilie front of the lender had a pit, the deck ofwhich was on a level with the ash-pan. and thefuel deck
. The locomotive engineer . thick, and farenough apart to have the equalizers and springshung between the plates and out of sight. Nowedges were used except on the main box, andthis was in front, insteiid of behind. The slack liad an extension instead of the front,and such cinders as would not go through the nettingfound their way into the trap and could be dumpedout. The side rods had no knuckle joints, but were inthree short, solid-ended pieces. The whole back ot the fire-box was doors, andilie front of the lender had a pit, the deck ofwhich was on a level with the ash-pan. and thefuel deck was almost breast high; there was asecond deck on the tank juat above iis top andover the llremans pit; from this deck the headbrakenuin was required to fill the sliute shown ontop of the fire-box (there were two of these in someengines); these sbulcs held sevend bushels of coal,and had a trap door at (he bottom Hint couldhe opened by the lever shown at llie top or the oneKliown on the fire-box, within reach of the fireman. work for their weight, and demonstrated theutility of coupled drivers. Itoss Winans proposed to build locomotives forthe roal-carrying trade, i>f a pattern different andhe4ivier than any before attempted, and in 1844turned out the first eight-whwlcd connected Ineo-motive. This engine had a horizontal tubularboiler, with a very large dome, the pistons were. couplHl to an inlenuediale shaft which was geuridto the hack axle, the 33 drivers being connectedby side rods ; this engine was named the Buffalo,and WHS the first of six that became known asthe Mud Digger* —hcniusc tliey pounded upmud and dusl from the light superslruelure. About 1848 Baldwin cummeiur^l luruing out -^ixand eight weeded coupled enginis, in which theconnections were direct to the dri\crs. and Winanssaw the advantage of this form, and In -Tune. ;l out of his shop at Baltimore the engineCamel, the llnsi of ihat typo, within the nextten years he built more than 2(HI of these
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