. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . J4 in. Number 50, 261 Length 21 ft. 0 in., 21 ft. 0 in. Heatixg Surface Firebox 251 sq. ft. Combustion chamber 130 Tubes 4722 Total 5,103 Superheater 1,329 Grate area June, 1922 RAILWAY AXD LOCf).MOTIVE ENGINEERING 141 Driving Wheels Diameter bi/: in. Journals, main 13 in. .\ 22 in. Journals, front 11 in. .\ JO in. Journals, others 11 in. .x 13 in. Engine Truck Wheels Diameter, front 33 in. Journals 6 in. x 12 in. Diameter, back 45^.. in. Tonrnals ^ in. x 14 in. The Mason Locomotive of 1
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . J4 in. Number 50, 261 Length 21 ft. 0 in., 21 ft. 0 in. Heatixg Surface Firebox 251 sq. ft. Combustion chamber 130 Tubes 4722 Total 5,103 Superheater 1,329 Grate area June, 1922 RAILWAY AXD LOCf).MOTIVE ENGINEERING 141 Driving Wheels Diameter bi/: in. Journals, main 13 in. .\ 22 in. Journals, front 11 in. .\ JO in. Journals, others 11 in. .x 13 in. Engine Truck Wheels Diameter, front 33 in. Journals 6 in. x 12 in. Diameter, back 45^.. in. Tonrnals ^ in. x 14 in. The Mason Locomotive of 1857 By J. Snowden Bell The six locomotives, road nunil)ers 231to 236, that were built for passenger trainservice on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road, by William Mason & Co., ofTaunton, Mass., and placed on the road in.\iiKn-it, ]HS7. were examples, not only of drawing of the historic Mason engine of1857, now in existence, which is absolutelycorrect in all its details. However un-usual or uninteresting they may appearto designers of the i)resent day, theirperfection of structural features and. -10--; TYPE LOCOMOTIVE FOR S0UTII1:KX P.\C11IC LINES. B.\LD\VIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS, UriLDKi; Wheel Base Driving 22 ft. 10 in. Rigid 22 ft. 10 in. Total engine 42 ft. 4 in. Total engine and tender 82 ft. 7j in. WeightIn Working Order On driving wheels 306,000 lbs. On truck, front 31,500 On truck, back 60,500 Total engine 398,000 Total engine and tender 621,000 the most advanced practice at that date,but also of the handsomest and mostsymmetrical design that had then beenproduced. Imitation is the sincerest formof approval and appreciation, and the goodjudgment and good taste of other loco-motive builders were speedily manifestedby the general, if not universal, adoptionof all the characteristic features of theMason design. Such illustrations of these locomotivesas have been published were of smallsizej reproduced from more or less in- symmetrical elegance of appearance areundeniable. The follow
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