. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . chester & Lawrence first saw it on the pay-car and seldomsaw it on anything else. The sketch is notmade to scale, but just as I remember see-ing it the last time, as it was standing on same type, which I have been told wasthe same engine, but I have my was called Hooksett. I would like tohear in regard to it from some one thatknows. I have been informed that severalengines of that style were designed andbuilt on the companys brands by a mannamed Thompson, then agent of th
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . chester & Lawrence first saw it on the pay-car and seldomsaw it on anything else. The sketch is notmade to scale, but just as I remember see-ing it the last time, as it was standing on same type, which I have been told wasthe same engine, but I have my was called Hooksett. I would like tohear in regard to it from some one thatknows. I have been informed that severalengines of that style were designed andbuilt on the companys brands by a mannamed Thompson, then agent of the Es-sex Machine Shop at Lawrence, had to dispose of the engines formost any old price and it was the maincause of closing the works L. Buxton, Me. Defects of Steel Tires. Editor: With pleasure I have read your editorialin the January issue on The Defects ofSteel Tires. I may say that I have foundthe conditions exactly as you describeand have been quite a little vexed at thefrequency of defective treads caused byshelled spots. I have also noticed in turn-. M. L fiet-eAir. OLD TIME ENGINE ON THE A. B. & P. RAILROAD. the siding at Salem, N. H. It had onlyrun six miles since taking on wood andthe tender was piled high with the same. Notice the cylinder on a line verticallywith the dome; there was no saddle tohold the forward end of the boiler. Thelatter was kept in place by several bracesand the centre plate for the forward truckwas also held by trussing and bracing, alsothe frames between the cylinders were re-inforced by bracing. The outside steampipes were covered or wound, which madethem look out of proportion. You will no-tice the main rods were very short, whichmust have been hard on the guides. I amnot sure about the half-stroke pump norall the fittings on the boiler, nor about ithaving a six-wheeled tender, for it isforty-six years since I last saw it, but thesketch will be recognized by any of theold-timers that were on the Concord r
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