. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ■ with Krupp steel tires. The axles of thetruck have journals 6x12 inches. Theengine is very well provided with all thenecessary conveniences for operation andfor the comfort of enginemen. Saving Oil and Wasting Coal. The unceasing zeal with which some rail-road officials pursue the subject of savinglubricants has become a matter of ridiculein many quarters. Those who are con-stantly talking about oil saving and de-manding tliat railway machinery should No. I There is a point below where you
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ■ with Krupp steel tires. The axles of thetruck have journals 6x12 inches. Theengine is very well provided with all thenecessary conveniences for operation andfor the comfort of enginemen. Saving Oil and Wasting Coal. The unceasing zeal with which some rail-road officials pursue the subject of savinglubricants has become a matter of ridiculein many quarters. Those who are con-stantly talking about oil saving and de-manding tliat railway machinery should No. I There is a point below where you cannotreduce lubrication without interfering withthe profits on coal consumption and trainspeed, and the sooner the railroads under-stand that the better it will be for theeconomical administration of their has been proven that when lubricationis slighted, while you may run with almostno trouble from hot boxes, the friction isso great that with the dynamometer car itwill show up outrageously, with bad re-sults to the railroad companies. Withother cars that is not true, because it will. ROGERS C0NS0LID.\TI0N FOR GREAT NORTHERN. 4 rigid wheel base provides an engine thatwill work very freely on curved track. The cylinders are 20 x 32 inches and thedriving wheels are 55 inches boiler carries a working pressure of210 pounds to the square inch. From thesefigures we find that the tractive power ofthe engine is 41,541 pounds and the ratioof adhesion to tractive power is Xlie boiler is of the Belpaire type, 74inches diameter at the smokebox and pro-vides 2,744 square feet of heating surfaceof which 2,539 square feet are in the tubesand 205 square feet in the firebox. Thegrate area is 59 square feet, which is veryliberal for a Belpaire firebox. The drivingaxles are steel with journals gx 12 truck wheels are 33 inches diametf-r be operated with the least possible ex-penditure of lubricants nearly always for-get that they are pursuing the policy o
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