. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. hree rings, and the third ring is tapered,the slope being placed on the construction was adopted because t those which have been previously usedon this road. Barnum stokers are applied to theselocomotives, and the installation is ofspecial interest owing to the large gratearea (88 sq. ft.) which must be stoker is of the underfeed type, andthe furnace is charged with coal by fourscrew conveyors whicli worK in suitablelongitudinal troughs. The conveyors are28 ins. apart measured transversely. Theclearance betwen the conveyor and the
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. hree rings, and the third ring is tapered,the slope being placed on the construction was adopted because t those which have been previously usedon this road. Barnum stokers are applied to theselocomotives, and the installation is ofspecial interest owing to the large gratearea (88 sq. ft.) which must be stoker is of the underfeed type, andthe furnace is charged with coal by fourscrew conveyors whicli worK in suitablelongitudinal troughs. The conveyors are28 ins. apart measured transversely. Theclearance betwen the conveyor and thel;ottom of the trough, can be adjusted tosecure the most satisfactory trough contains a series of inclinedplates, which are placed above the con-veyor, and as the coal strikes these platesit is fed upward into the furnace. Theplates are adjustable for height and in-clination. Tlie conveyors are workedby a transverse worm shaft, which isplaced at the back end and is rotated bytwo small steam engines. On the tender. F. A. Torrey, Gen. Supt. of Motive P The 2-10-2 wheel arrangement is notnew, as it has been applied by TheBaldwin Locomotive Works to 160 loco-motives built for the Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe Railway, and to a similarengine for the Pittsburgh, Shawmut &Northern Railway. These locomotiveswere all constructed during the years1903 to 1907. In them the rear truck wasused principally to improve the curvingqualities, and the firebox had a shallowthroat and was placed over the rear pairof driving wheels. In the new Burling-ton locomotives, the firebox is placedback of the driving wheels and above therear truck wheels, and advantage istaken of the opportunity to deepen thethroat. The increase in weight over theSanta Fe locomotives is 35 per cent., andthe increase in total equivalent heatingsurface is 38 per cent. The Burlingtonlocomotives are fitted with superheaters,and in making the above comparison each the firebox has a combustion chamber,and room had to be p
Size: 2483px × 1007px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyork, bookyear19
