. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Mr. Vanderbilt, the young multi-millionaire, has a strong natural leaningtowards mechanical and engineering pur-suits. Some years ago he designed and 95 Liberty Street, New York, February, 1901. No. 2 His paper, which traced the history ofthe locomotive boiler since it was firstused, was profusely illustrated by stere-opticon views, and proved remarkably in-teresting to the mechanical engineers whoformed the greater part of a very largemeeting. An engine equipped with boiler wa
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Mr. Vanderbilt, the young multi-millionaire, has a strong natural leaningtowards mechanical and engineering pur-suits. Some years ago he designed and 95 Liberty Street, New York, February, 1901. No. 2 His paper, which traced the history ofthe locomotive boiler since it was firstused, was profusely illustrated by stere-opticon views, and proved remarkably in-teresting to the mechanical engineers whoformed the greater part of a very largemeeting. An engine equipped with boiler was built by the NewYork Central, and put to work haulingfreight in August, 1899. and Has been in making of the furnaces gave some particu-lars of how the work was done. Whenthe first furnace was made they did nothave rolls long enough to do the whole ofit at once, and they had to make it in twoparts and weld the parts together. A^they were uncertain if the weld would besatisfactory, they tested it up to 500 pound?pressure, and it stood satisfactorily. Theyare now able to roll furnaces of this kind. GINE WITH VAMH1U:ILI BuILER. patented an unproved form of ,which consists of a single corrugated tubetaking the place of the ordinary rectangu-lar firebox. His connection with the me-chanical department of the New YorkCentra! Railroad impressed Mr. Vander-bilt with the great labor and expensenecessary to maintain staybolts, and heproceeded to devise some means to dis-pense with them, while providing a fur-nace that w-ould be perfectly safe. Hehad the example of the Fox corrugatedfurnace, so much used in marine boilers,but these furnaces are of small diameterand could not provide sufficient grate areafor a locomotive. Mr. Vanderbilt, how-ever, conceived the idea of having a cor-rugated tube made large enough to forma locomotive furnace, and he proceeded towork out the details, and did the businessverv successfullv. service ever since. The engine is an ex-cellent steamer and use
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