. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ^ inchesdeep in the front and 66^ inches in theback. The water space in front is 4 incheswide and y/2 inches at tlie side andback. The crown is sustained by radial stays,I inch diameter, which is also the thick-ness of the other staybolts. The tubes areof charcoal iron, and there are 310 ofthem, 2 inches diameter and 12 feet tubes give 1, square feet of heat-ing surface, and firebox square feet,making a total, as has already been men-tioned, of 2, square feet. The gratearea is
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ^ inchesdeep in the front and 66^ inches in theback. The water space in front is 4 incheswide and y/2 inches at tlie side andback. The crown is sustained by radial stays,I inch diameter, which is also the thick-ness of the other staybolts. The tubes areof charcoal iron, and there are 310 ofthem, 2 inches diameter and 12 feet tubes give 1, square feet of heat-ing surface, and firebox square feet,making a total, as has already been men-tioned, of 2, square feet. The gratearea is The tender has a capacity of4,500 U. S. gallons, and carries 10 tonsof coal. The total wheel-base of engineand tender is 50 feet 4^ inches. UnitedStates metallic packing is used in piston. NEW YORK CKNTllAL MOGUL. and is what Mr. Lyon aptly calls a hori-zontal elevator, because of its speed—400feet per minute. i i ^ Two Interesting Buildings. Pictures of two interesting Baltimore& Ohio Railroad buildings have been re-produced in a recent issue of Trutk. Oneis the buildmg at Frederick, Md., whichhas been used since 1831 as a freight sta-tion, and which is still devoted to thatpurpose. In the little cupola of the build-ing a bell once hung, which was alwaysrung on arrival of trains from Baltimore,when horses were the motive power of therailroad. The other building is the station atMount Clare. Baltimore, and it is notedas being the location of the first telegraphoffice in the world. It was from this build-ing that Professor Morse sent his cele-brated message in 1844 to his friends inWashington, forty miles away. of heating surface to provide the steam re-quired. The tractive force of the engine,working full stroke, is about 30,000pounds, and the coefficient of adhes
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