Railway and Locomotive Engineering . firebox, inclu. arc!) flues sq. ft. eating surface total. . sq. on drivers working order 270,000 lbs. Weight total of engine. . of tender of tender empty. .58,960 lbs. Steam pressure 210 lbs. Rating per cent. as a rule level and yard engines, with theproportion something under the powerof the road engines is found to handlethe traffic where grades are not encoun-tered, as in the yards, and where a timeschedule for getting over the line does notexist. Speed recorders are used quiteexte
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . firebox, inclu. arc!) flues sq. ft. eating surface total. . sq. on drivers working order 270,000 lbs. Weight total of engine. . of tender of tender empty. .58,960 lbs. Steam pressure 210 lbs. Rating per cent. as a rule level and yard engines, with theproportion something under the powerof the road engines is found to handlethe traffic where grades are not encoun-tered, as in the yards, and where a timeschedule for getting over the line does notexist. Speed recorders are used quiteextensively on the El Paso & Southwest-ern, and the working and standing time to ends work out in practice and of howyard engines are susceptible of improve-ment and are given increased efficiency bythe use of appliances which were former-ly only employed on road engines, may betaken up in our columns with a view ofshowing that yard service may be ma-terially cheapened without in any way re-ducing its efficiency, and that in fact an. FIG. 5. OUTLINE OF MIKADO OR 2-8-2 ROAD ENGINE. Kind of main .Piston 16 in. Valve travel 7 in. Kind of valve gear Walschaerts Firebox length inside 114J^ in. Firebox width inside 754 in. Grate area sq. ft. Tubes, large 43-5^ in. Tubes, small 295-2 in. Tubes, length over sheets. .21 ft. 0 surface .4,494 sq. surface firebox, inclu. arch flues 246 sq. ft. Heating surface total sq. ft. of yard engines have been subjected toscientific analysis with beneficial net result of the method of adapt-ing means to ends, such as the design oflocomotives not only for switching serv-ice in general, but for what one mightcall the specialties of that service, sup-plemented by a careful analysis of thetime in which each particular part ofservice occupied, has had a powerful in-fluence in the securing of real economy, Heating surface superheater. sq. surface grand total, sq. on
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