. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d I note your remarks about the lackof photographs of Irish engines. I there-fore enclose you some more, which I havetaken during the past summer, and hopethey may be of some use to the first is a six-coupled goods locomo-tive belonging to the Midland Great get a photograph of one of the latter Ishall send it along. No. 2 is another photograph of Dublin,Wicklow & Wexford engine 58, taken byme at Kingstown. The gentleman on thefoot plate is Mr. R. Cronin, the locomo-tive superintendent. The buil
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d I note your remarks about the lackof photographs of Irish engines. I there-fore enclose you some more, which I havetaken during the past summer, and hopethey may be of some use to the first is a six-coupled goods locomo-tive belonging to the Midland Great get a photograph of one of the latter Ishall send it along. No. 2 is another photograph of Dublin,Wicklow & Wexford engine 58, taken byme at Kingstown. The gentleman on thefoot plate is Mr. R. Cronin, the locomo-tive superintendent. The building in thebackground is the yacht club; part of theharbor may be seen behind that again. No. 3 is a photograph of one of the big GINEERING I noted a paragraph statingthat Dublin was about to indulge in elec-tric cars. I inclose you a photograph ofone of the said cars. The installation isnew almost complete, and promises in thevery near future to be the finest in theworld. Wishing you and Locomotive En-gineering every prosperity for the comingyear. E. L. Cleugh. Kingstown, MORE IRISH engines. Western Railway of Ireland. The enginehas cylinders 17 x 24; boiler, 53 inchesdiameter; drivers, 63 inches diameter;boiler pressure, 160 pounds; weight ofengine and tender, 68 tons. The MidlandGreat Western Railway runs from Dublinto Galway, with branches to Sigo andWestport. This type of locomotive han-dles all the cattle and goods traffic on thesystem. This particular machine is oneof the older ones; the later ones havelarger cylinders and higher boilers. If I ten-wheeler tanks; cylinders, 18 x 26;drivers, 65 inches diameter; pressure, 155pounds. This one handles the morningand evening trains from Bray to Dublinand back (the two heaviest trains of theday), and during the day brings a goodstrain down to Bray and back. No. 4 shows her sister, 54, decorated totake the Duke and Duchess of York fromthe Carlisle pier, Kingstown, to Dublin,on the occasion of their visit over here. In
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