. American engineer and railroad journal . ition, and in this connec-tion we are glad to present a description of the design broughtout by the Schenectady Locomotive Works to meet the new requirements. About seven months ago Mr. C. Peter Clark, GeneralManager of the New England Railroad, consulted the officers ofthe Schenectady Locomotive Works with reference to the designof a light combination equipment, and the work was much study the result was the set of plans from which thiscar and another for the Erie Railroad were built. The design ofsuch equipment may appear to be a ve
. American engineer and railroad journal . ition, and in this connec-tion we are glad to present a description of the design broughtout by the Schenectady Locomotive Works to meet the new requirements. About seven months ago Mr. C. Peter Clark, GeneralManager of the New England Railroad, consulted the officers ofthe Schenectady Locomotive Works with reference to the designof a light combination equipment, and the work was much study the result was the set of plans from which thiscar and another for the Erie Railroad were built. The design ofsuch equipment may appear to be a very simple matter. It is,however, exceedingly difficult to secure the necessary power, en-durance and ability to accelerate a train with the necessary com-pactness and the freedom from oscillation or vibration com-municated to the train. It would be easy to produce a designusing flexible steam pipe connections, but to arrange the wholeaffair as well as has been done in this case requires ingenuity, skill 86 8 AMERICAN ENGINEER, CAR BUILDER. and experience in working out similar problems. Many will lookupon this as a rehash of old ideas, the old steam dummythrust forward again; and so it is, but it is brought out on newlines for new purposes. The arrangement of the machinery willbear the closest scrutiny and criticism, and we believe that it willbe generally considered as a good design which is based on thebest locomotive practice. Other locomotive builders are engagedupon a similar problem, and we hope to present the result of theirefforts a little later. The car is an old din-ing car formerly havingtwo six-wheel trucks. * The forward end is __*_ carried on the locomo- Itive truck and the othertruck is retained un-changed. The frame ofthe car was reinforced ;by steel bracing and a §partition placed across Ithe car immediatelybehind the engine s| tanks holding 1,400 gallons of water were hung between the trucks and thewindows and front platform were rearranged. The boi
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