. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . KIG. 27. OLDEST LOCOMOTIVIr; IN THE WORLD, STEAM. cylinder would be certain to exertcondensing effects upon the steam in thehigh pressure cylinder. Even in the handsof their friends it was difficult to keepthe engines at. FIG. 26. PITTSBURGH SLOTTED CROSSHEAD LOCOMOTIVE. to the front lever, which was fulcrumedsecurely to the frame near its engines were compound, with an- first product of the Pittsburgh LocomotiveWorks, and was built by Thatcher Per-kins, enginee
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . KIG. 27. OLDEST LOCOMOTIVIr; IN THE WORLD, STEAM. cylinder would be certain to exertcondensing effects upon the steam in thehigh pressure cylinder. Even in the handsof their friends it was difficult to keepthe engines at. FIG. 26. PITTSBURGH SLOTTED CROSSHEAD LOCOMOTIVE. to the front lever, which was fulcrumedsecurely to the frame near its engines were compound, with an- first product of the Pittsburgh LocomotiveWorks, and was built by Thatcher Per-kins, engineer and superintendent of the well say of it, as the cricketers did ofthe Queen, Well played; 84, not out. We are indebted to Mr. WilsonWorsdell, chief mechanical engineer ofthe North Eastern of England, for thework, and after^a photograph, diagrams and informationconcerning this remarkable Worsdell is of the opinion thatit is the oldest locomotive in the worldlli;it is daily under steam, for it wasbuilt in 1822 and is now regularly usedas part of the motive power equipmentin the collieries of Sir Lindsay Wood,who is one of the directors of theNorth Eastern Railway. The collieriesare situated in the county of Durham,at a place called Hetton-le-Hole, inEngland. The engine has vertical cylindersioJ4 inches in diameter and 24 in
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