. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eelbase, 6 ft. 4 ins.; total wheel-base, 13 ft. 3 ins.; working pressure, 176lbs.; grate area, sq. ft.; total heat-ing surface, 610 sq. ft.; tank capacity, 220gallons; coal bunker capacity, J4 ton;weight in working order, tons;weight empty, tons; length, 25 ft.;driving wheelbase, 7 ft. 3 ins.; height, 10ft. 6 ins.; tractive power, about 8,000 locomotives haul, exclusive of theirown weight, a gross load of 100 tons ata speed of 40 km. per hour on a level,or at a speed
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . eelbase, 6 ft. 4 ins.; total wheel-base, 13 ft. 3 ins.; working pressure, 176lbs.; grate area, sq. ft.; total heat-ing surface, 610 sq. ft.; tank capacity, 220gallons; coal bunker capacity, J4 ton;weight in working order, tons;weight empty, tons; length, 25 ft.;driving wheelbase, 7 ft. 3 ins.; height, 10ft. 6 ins.; tractive power, about 8,000 locomotives haul, exclusive of theirown weight, a gross load of 100 tons ata speed of 40 km. per hour on a level,or at a speed of 15 km. on a gradient of1 in 50. Owing to the scarcity of water, eachtrain has its separate tank wagon, andfor this reason the larger engines are notof the saddle type, but separate tendersare attached carrying 10,000 litres ofwater and tons of coal each. Each en-fine has two injectors and a duplex feederpump. Altogether there are now 36 loco-motives and 20 tenders on the line. Onaccount of the conditions which had tobe considered there are a great manytypes of goods wagons in use. The open. SMALL GOODS WAGON, OTAVI RAILWAY. goods wagons were at first constructed aslow-sided trucks, but this constructionwas changed and the wagons suppliedlater on were fitted with high sides. Thelow-sided goods wagons have no doors atall, but are so constructed that the sidescan be swung down. The sides of allopen goods wagons rest in sockets andcan if necessary be removed open goods wagons have a carrying February, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOO »M( >l IVE ENG1N1 ERING 53 capacity of 10 tuns and a floor space of83 sq. ft. and a tare of tons. To re-duce the wheel loads and to go easilyround curves each wagon runs with twofour-whcolcd bogies, a self-acting brakeapplied to four wheels. Up to the pres-ent the railway owns [32 low-sided goods
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