. American engineer and railroad journal . r. P. F. Gaines, Mechanical Engi-neer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, we have received a draw-ing of and simple arrangement of the valve mo-tion transmission bar whereby the usual curved bar or back-connected motion is avoided. The various methods of dodgingthe forward axle of Atlantic, 10-wheel or consolidation engines, The Empire State Express of the New York Central & Hud-son River Railroad has been improved to better accommodatethe increasing travel between New York and Buffalo. It isone of the most luxurious of day trains. It is comp
. American engineer and railroad journal . r. P. F. Gaines, Mechanical Engi-neer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, we have received a draw-ing of and simple arrangement of the valve mo-tion transmission bar whereby the usual curved bar or back-connected motion is avoided. The various methods of dodgingthe forward axle of Atlantic, 10-wheel or consolidation engines, The Empire State Express of the New York Central & Hud-son River Railroad has been improved to better accommodatethe increasing travel between New York and Buffalo. It isone of the most luxurious of day trains. It is composed of onecombination smoking and baggage car, two day coaches of thelargest and most modern construction, and one Pullman obser-vation car. The train was designed with the object of carry-ing a greater number of passengers with less dead weight thanformerly. Instead of the usual type of dining car the daycoaches may be converted into dining cars, and meals will beserved a la carte from the Empire kitchen placed in one endof a Simple Arrangement of Valve Motion Transmission Bar. have been illustrated in this journal at different times. Thatused on the Southern Railway is shown on page S3 of theMarch, 1898, number, the Pennsylvania plan for consolidationand Atlantic types in June, 1899, page 183, and June, 1900, page168. In the Lehigh Valley plan the link block drives the lower ofa pair of rocker arms which are journaled ou a pin which issecured in a boss forged on the frame. A straight rod connectsthe upper of these arms, over the forward axle to another pairof rockers, which, in this case, are both above the center of therocker box. These may be like the arms at the links, both inthe same plane if necessary, this arrangement being the oneused in the 10-wheel engines illustrated on page 312 of ourissue of October, 1900. The present engraving shows how con-veniently the equalizer may he arranged without the slightestinterference with the valve gear and also how the rock
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