. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Length of firebox, inside, 108 inches. Width of firebox, inside, 42^^ inches. Working pressure, 180 pounds. Kind of grates, cast-iron, rocking. Grate surface, Heating surface in tubes, 2, Heating surface in , Modern Locomotives. Of all the patented gimcrack locomo-tives that have been devised in the pastten or fifteen years not one is in serviceto-day. The Holman and the Fontainelocomotives met with a speedy and dis-astrous downfall; the Strong locomotive,with its peculiar val
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Length of firebox, inside, 108 inches. Width of firebox, inside, 42^^ inches. Working pressure, 180 pounds. Kind of grates, cast-iron, rocking. Grate surface, Heating surface in tubes, 2, Heating surface in , Modern Locomotives. Of all the patented gimcrack locomo-tives that have been devised in the pastten or fifteen years not one is in serviceto-day. The Holman and the Fontainelocomotives met with a speedy and dis-astrous downfall; the Strong locomotive,with its peculiar valve gear, which wasto render the link motion obsolete, wasalso short-lived; the Hall four-cylinderlocomotive was a disappointment in itsperformance, and of the James Tole-man, an English locomotive upon newlines, the same must also be said. Thestandard locomotive in use to-day on allAmerican railroads is an evolution; stepby step, and detail by detail, improve-ments have been made; it is a survival ofthe fittest practice and embodies the prac-tical experience of intelligent men in the. COMPOUXD FOR LAKE, SUPERIOR & RAILWAY. some of their materials, for such engineswill haul more than will hang together. The following are the general dimen-sions of the engines: Fuel, bituminous coal. Gage of track, 4 feet 8]A inches. Total weight of engine in working order, pounds. Total weight on drivers, 132,800 pounds. Driving-wheel base of engine, 15 feet 6inches. Total wheel base of engine, 23 feet 6inches. Total wheel base of engine and tender,52 feet loj-^ inches. Height from rail to top of stack, 14 feet11^ inches. Cylinders, high-pressure, diameter andstroke, 20 x 28 inches. Cylinders, low-pressure, diameter andstroke, 31 x 28 inches. Slide valves. Richardson balance. Piston rods, steel, 3}4 inches diameter. Total heating surface, 2, Diameter of driving wheels outside oftire, 56 inches. Diameter and length of journals, 8x9inches. Diameter of truck w
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