. Railroad digest . Vol. XL, No. II. RAILROAD DIGEST 415. A Ten-Wheel Locomotive of 1853 It is well known tliat the ten-wheel locomotive is not anew thing, but an arrangement that has coine and gone andcome again, like some fashions. The engine here illustratedin outline is one that was built in 1853, for what is now thePennsylvania R. R. The enormous, flaring stack at oncebespeaks the wood burner, and its long chute, extendingdown to the end of the bumper, can hardly be called an or-namental appendage. Still, though usually in a very bat-tered and dilapidated condition, it served its purpose
. Railroad digest . Vol. XL, No. II. RAILROAD DIGEST 415. A Ten-Wheel Locomotive of 1853 It is well known tliat the ten-wheel locomotive is not anew thing, but an arrangement that has coine and gone andcome again, like some fashions. The engine here illustratedin outline is one that was built in 1853, for what is now thePennsylvania R. R. The enormous, flaring stack at oncebespeaks the wood burner, and its long chute, extendingdown to the end of the bumper, can hardly be called an or-namental appendage. Still, though usually in a very bat-tered and dilapidated condition, it served its purpose of acinder discharge better than a mere opening that dischargedover the whole front end of the locomotive. The type of guides and crosshead have quite a modernappearance, except in the matter of size; but the roundconnecting rod and the turned, though flattened, side rodsare evidences of a past design that has gone, never to re- The working of the pump from a return crank on the reardriver is also of the past, though 1853 is by no measure thelatest date
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