. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . soline train. This train was manu-factured by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company ofClintonville, Wisconsin. The train makes daily tripsbetween New Orleans and Shell Beach, a distance ofabout 40 miles, and has accommodations to seat 67passengers. The power plant is a 4-cvlinder T head motor of SAE—68 on brake test. The bore of the motoris in. with a stroke of in. An Eisemann hightension magneto with impulse starter furnishes the braking system. Cast iron shoe brakes are used onea
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . soline train. This train was manu-factured by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Company ofClintonville, Wisconsin. The train makes daily tripsbetween New Orleans and Shell Beach, a distance ofabout 40 miles, and has accommodations to seat 67passengers. The power plant is a 4-cvlinder T head motor of SAE—68 on brake test. The bore of the motoris in. with a stroke of in. An Eisemann hightension magneto with impulse starter furnishes the braking system. Cast iron shoe brakes are used oneach wheel of the power unit and trailer, there beingone brake shoe for each wheel. A Westinghouse airbrake system is provided to operate these brake shoesand to provide air, a Westinghouse air compressor isinstalled at the rear of the transmission. This air compres-sor is of 10 cu. ft. per minute capacity and is controlled byan automatic governor. For starting: and on steep grades one sand box is-placed on the rear of each rear wheel and the frontof each front wheel of the power unit. The flow of. Two-Car Gasoline Motor Train on the Louisiana Southern Railroad ignition. The carburetor is a Stromberg plain 30-gallon tank mounted on the side of the chassiscarries the gasoline supply. The gasoline is fed byair pressure; the air pressure being applied throughthe reducer valve from the air brake system. Thetransmission is of the jaw clutch type with gears al-ways in mesh. There are four speeds forward andfour speeds reverse. One of the special features is the four wheel driveprinciple. The weight of the tractor unit is equallydistributed to the four driving wheels of the tractorunit, thus furnishing that great amount of tractionthat is required for starting and for negotiatinggrades. The springs are 54 inches long 2J4 inches wide andmade of chrome silicon manganese steel heat of the springs being used on the chassis of thepower unit and trailer. These springs ar
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