. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed to the drivers. The axle shown in our illustration isused in the Baldwin engine built forthe Union Pacific and which was illus-trated and described in the Augustissue of Railway and Locomotive En-gineering, page 387. This is a built upaxle made of 7 parts and having balancing discs, which unitethe axle ends and the crank pins. Thecentral web is of approximately rec-tangular section and is a separatepiece. The axle has the advantage of beams upon the Tropic of Cancer, buthedidn
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed to the drivers. The axle shown in our illustration isused in the Baldwin engine built forthe Union Pacific and which was illus-trated and described in the Augustissue of Railway and Locomotive En-gineering, page 387. This is a built upaxle made of 7 parts and having balancing discs, which unitethe axle ends and the crank pins. Thecentral web is of approximately rec-tangular section and is a separatepiece. The axle has the advantage of beams upon the Tropic of Cancer, buthedidnotwish to have words like thoseeven in his thoughts when the fishingwas good and swimming had been extradoubly prohibited, and must, therefore,be enjoyed in moderation. He did not take in all the teacher toldthe class about things in general andwhy everything happened, but he hadtaken great interest in observing that theends of the rails which his father andthe men worked with had round-end oblong holes for the joint the teacher asked him in schoolfor his official explanation of why the. CRANK AXLE OF UNION PACIFIC 4-4-2 ENGINE. IT IS MADE IN SEVEN PIECES. from it was also a solid forging, butomitted the two inner discs, and sub-stituted a rectangular bar for theconnection between the cranks. Thisstyle of crank axle can be used withadvantage where the central portion ofthe axle does not carry the eccentrics. A crank axle designed by Mr. , of the London andSouth-Western railway, consists ofa modification of the discs, ofwhich, like the Worsdell axle there arefour, in which the discs are flattened tosomething of a triangular shape withthe smaller ends containing the crankpins, and the heavier outer portionsacting as counterbalances. This axleis made of 9 parts and is of the built-up type. The advantages of the built up typeof crank axle are that the revolvingand reciprocating parts can all be bal-anced in the axles, the side rods and being balanced close to
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