. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iously encountered in railroadbuilding. When finished the road was Seplcmber, 190,3. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 399 exceedingly crooked and hilly. It hadone curve 300 feet long of 250 feet radius;tlicrc were two grades 96 feet to themile, three-cjuarters of a mile each, andone grade 80 feet to the mile, five mileslong, having several curvvs, one of thembeing 550 feet radius. The capitalists who undertook the con-struction of that railroad were leadersamong the most enterprising gentle
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iously encountered in railroadbuilding. When finished the road was Seplcmber, 190,3. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 399 exceedingly crooked and hilly. It hadone curve 300 feet long of 250 feet radius;tlicrc were two grades 96 feet to themile, three-cjuarters of a mile each, andone grade 80 feet to the mile, five mileslong, having several curvvs, one of thembeing 550 feet radius. The capitalists who undertook the con-struction of that railroad were leadersamong the most enterprising gentlemenin Pennsylvania at that time. Theyspared no expense to the railroad men. li is said to have been a verycrude tab, but it was a Ijeginning ofa very desirable improvement, that wassoon acknowledged to be an absolutenecessity for locf)motives operating intl>e rigorous climate of the United States. •niK FIRST Ki<;iir-\viiKi;i. esgisk. Early in 1836, Henry R. Campbell, acivil engineer on the Philadelphia andGcrmantown Railroad, secured a patenton .in eight-wdicel engine, Fig. 32, with. FIRST .S-VVHEEL ENGINE. FIG. 3L>. and its equipment equal to the best thatcould be procured at that period. E.\STWICK & FIRST ENGINE. The Beaver Meadow locomotive wascalled the Samuel D. Ingham, afterthe president of the road. The enginehad the Bury boiler and inside frameswith outside cylinders, a style of con-struction that had up to that time foundvery little favor from locomotive design-ers. The reversing gear invented byAndrew M. Eastvvick was entirely orig-inal, and consisted principally of a slid-ing block intervening between the valveseat and the slide valve. Particulars willbe given in my article on locomotivevalve gear. JOSEPH HARRISON, JR. .\s Garrett & Eastwick had no experi-ence in locomotive building, they en-gaged as foreman. Joseph Harrison, young man who had worked for severalyears in the Norris Works, where helearned a great deal from the failure
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