. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . htbe interesting: Weight total, running order, 166,000 lbs. Wheel Base—11 ft., 8 ins. Tractive Power—32,450 lbs. Valve Gear—Walschaert. Cylinders—Diameter and stroke, 21 insx 26 ins. huh ordinarily areover without attracting iotice. W< <l a certain man as working at his trade, of another pursuinghis calling. Now why should not everyman who works at a trade be in the bestsense pursuing his calling? If a manis engaged in the work pertaining to acertain trade, because he stumbled into itby
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . htbe interesting: Weight total, running order, 166,000 lbs. Wheel Base—11 ft., 8 ins. Tractive Power—32,450 lbs. Valve Gear—Walschaert. Cylinders—Diameter and stroke, 21 insx 26 ins. huh ordinarily areover without attracting iotice. W< <l a certain man as working at his trade, of another pursuinghis calling. Now why should not everyman who works at a trade be in the bestsense pursuing his calling? If a manis engaged in the work pertaining to acertain trade, because he stumbled into itby accident when a boy, and cares nothingabout excelling in it, that man may, per-haps, truly be said to be working at thetrade of machinist, blacksmith or whatnot. The man, however, who was im-pelled to enter on mechanical work whena boy, less from the force of circumstancesthan because of a strong natural inclina-tion, may be truly described as followinga calling which brought him to thatparticular pursuit, and it may be trulysaid that the chances of such a man forsuccess are very SIX-WHEEL SWITCHING LOCOMOTIVES FOR THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL K. Barnum, General Supt. of Motive Power. American Locomotive Company, Builders. water is obtained. Water is cheap, butthe numerous trips the locomotive makes,leaving the yard to go after water, arecostly. The saving in water should de-crease the number of these trips, therebyincreasing the actual working time of thelocomotive. Because of the entire elimi-nation of condensation with the super-heater, railroad companies are not sub-jected to the annoyance and expense ofdamage claims for clothing soiled by theejection of sooty water from the stacks ofswitching engines working in passengerterminals. The Gaines arrangement of firebrick notonly allows better combustion, but theback end of the firebox is more fully util-ized, with a resulting increase in the gen-eration of steam. With this arch thefirebox measures 109-}^ in
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