. Book of the Royal blue . 50 and were the first 30-ton engines everused in any part of the world, and theirfame was spread abroad in the to one modern class of engines,which shall here be nameless, they wereperhaps the ugliest locomotives whichhave ever been built. Their bare un-protected fire-boxes hung over the rearwheels with a downward slant from theboiler. The fire-box had two chutes,through which coal was supplied at in-tervals by opening slides worked by alever. The cab was placed on the top ofthe boiler and steps leading from it to a lUTrll KMioS. gangway w
. Book of the Royal blue . 50 and were the first 30-ton engines everused in any part of the world, and theirfame was spread abroad in the to one modern class of engines,which shall here be nameless, they wereperhaps the ugliest locomotives whichhave ever been built. Their bare un-protected fire-boxes hung over the rearwheels with a downward slant from theboiler. The fire-box had two chutes,through which coal was supplied at in-tervals by opening slides worked by alever. The cab was placed on the top ofthe boiler and steps leading from it to a lUTrll KMioS. gangway which ran back to the fireman must have had a dangerousjourney to and fro when his camelback was running at high speed. Thebeauty of this engine, as originally built,was not enhanced by a spark arrester. which took the form of a short piece ofduplicate funnel placed directly in frontof the ordinary one. One feature of these locomotiveswhich attracted great attention from theengine men of that day was the horizon-. IIAVKS (iKADE ENGINE. tal cylinders placed in a line with thecentre of the driving wheels, as is almostuniversalh the case to-day. Before thecamel back innovation the cylindershad been placed above the centre of thedriving wheels, and of course inclinedtoward them. Yet the camel backs had theirgood points. They could pull trainswhich other engines could not look at;they could make steam in any kind ofweather and with almost any kind ofcoal; they never got stuck on the upgrades as other engines frequently did,and their strength, and constancy inusing it, obviated the necessity of occa-sional helpers. They could haul trains100 tons in weight in summer and eightytons in weight in winter, and keep theirscheduled time, over the mountain gradesof the AUeghenies. They were stoutlybuilt engines, too, with good materialin every part of them, and some of them,put into service thirty years ago, arestill pegging away, much too good to berelegated to the scrap heap. The
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