. American engineer and railroad journal . J.^ DETAILS OF CYLINDERS—NEW YORK CENTRAL PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVES. DETAILS OF HEAVY PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVE. New York Central Lines. A general description, illustrated with photograph and generalelevations, as well as boiler details, of some very powerful Pa-cific type locomotives, which were recently delivered to the NewYork Central Lines by the American Locomotive Company, ap-peared on page 164 of the May, 1908, issue of this journal. These locomotives can be said to be the heaviest passengerlocomotives in regular service in the world, as they
. American engineer and railroad journal . J.^ DETAILS OF CYLINDERS—NEW YORK CENTRAL PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVES. DETAILS OF HEAVY PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVE. New York Central Lines. A general description, illustrated with photograph and generalelevations, as well as boiler details, of some very powerful Pa-cific type locomotives, which were recently delivered to the NewYork Central Lines by the American Locomotive Company, ap-peared on page 164 of the May, 1908, issue of this journal. These locomotives can be said to be the heaviest passengerlocomotives in regular service in the world, as they are excededin total weight only by two experimental engines on the Penn-sylvania Railroad. The total weight is 266,000 lbs., of which. FRONT END ARRANGEMENT—NEW YORK CENTRAL PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVES 171,500 lbs. is on drivers. The tractive effort of 29,200 lbs. isseemingly small for so large a weight on drivers and gives aratio of adhesion of This, however, indicates a most sat-isfactory condition for passenger locomotives, since it assuresthe ability to develop full power in starting a heavy train with-out slipping the drivers. The boiler measures 72 in. outside diameter at the front ringand is of the conical type, the reducing sheet forming the secondring and increasing the outside diameter to 83 in. at the domering. There are 382 2-in. tubes 20 ft. long, which give a heatingsurface of 3, sq. ft. The total heating surface of the boileris 4, sq. ft. and the grate area is sq. ft. Reference canbe made to the table on page 165 for the boiler and other front end arrangement of thisboiler is interesting, largely becauseof the fact that the tube sheet is set6o?/2 in. back of the center li
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