. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . c loco-motives associated with the names ofM. M. du Bousquet and De Glehn; the30-in. piston stroke, and the super-heater. He has utilized the Belpairefirebox and the principle of six-coupledwheels for express work. He has re-vived the ordinary domeless boiler andthe outside crank. We here illustrate one of his locomo-tive designs for express passengerwork. This is a ten-wheeled locomo-tive of the 4-6-0 type, with four high-pressure cylinders, and it representsthe logical outcome of Mr. Church
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . c loco-motives associated with the names ofM. M. du Bousquet and De Glehn; the30-in. piston stroke, and the super-heater. He has utilized the Belpairefirebox and the principle of six-coupledwheels for express work. He has re-vived the ordinary domeless boiler andthe outside crank. We here illustrate one of his locomo-tive designs for express passengerwork. This is a ten-wheeled locomo-tive of the 4-6-0 type, with four high-pressure cylinders, and it representsthe logical outcome of Mr. Church-wards experiments and present example of Great Westernpractice is not novel in respect of theuse of four high-pressure cylinders, for During the summer months traf-fic on the G. W. R. increased so thatloads of 350 to 450 tons behindthe tender had to be hauled at speedsof to miles per hour for 3-hour The engines of which we write areten 4-6-0 machines of what they callon the Great Western the Dog-Starclass, as the first of the series borethat name. In these ten engines the. SECTION BETWEEN FRAMES. non-stop runs, with numerous slow-downs and severe gradients to beclimbed, and the necessary rapid ac-celeration when starting and promptrecovery after checks, lead to the 4-6-0design. The Atlantics. although power- inside pair of cylinders are placed for-ward of the bogie center line and driveon to the leading cranked axle; theoutside cylinders are placed at the backof the bogie center line and drive on tothe centre coupled wheels. The cranks
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