. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . HOMESTEAD STRAIGHTWAY LOCOnOTIVE Biow-off Cocks IRON BODY. BRASS PLUGTurns easily, but when closedvalve is forced tightly to seat Homestead Valve tit Co,, PITTSBURGH, PA., American LocomotiveSander Company 13th & Willow Sts., PhUadelphla, Pa. Propneton and Manafactnren,Hoc»T»ic, 8h» and CiniTii OAllUEIVO used to help freight trains over SandPatch Hill, on the Alleghany moun-tains. It is, in fact, a pair of locomotiveswith one boiler. The engine, in work-ing order, weighs 334,500 lbs.,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . HOMESTEAD STRAIGHTWAY LOCOnOTIVE Biow-off Cocks IRON BODY. BRASS PLUGTurns easily, but when closedvalve is forced tightly to seat Homestead Valve tit Co,, PITTSBURGH, PA., American LocomotiveSander Company 13th & Willow Sts., PhUadelphla, Pa. Propneton and Manafactnren,Hoc»T»ic, 8h» and CiniTii OAllUEIVO used to help freight trains over SandPatch Hill, on the Alleghany moun-tains. It is, in fact, a pair of locomotiveswith one boiler. The engine, in work-ing order, weighs 334,500 lbs., and theweight of the tender filled with 7,000gallons of water and 13 tons of coalis 143,000 lbs. It has the greatest heat-ing surface ever put into a sq. ft., o which sq. ft. areiti the fire box, and 5, sq. ft. inthe tubes, which latter are 21 ft. power of the locomotive in draw-bar pull is 70,000 lbs. working com-pound, or 80,000 lbs. in simple gear. Theboiler will carry a working pressure of23s lbs. The engine was fully illus-trated and described in the June, 1904,issue of Railway axd Locomotive En-gineering. We have received a finely illustrateddescriptive pamphlet which makes usthink of Chicago and Milwaukee as two ahead in t
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