. Book of the Royal blue . nce which time they havebeen gradually wearing out and lieing des-trnved, until in ISDS the last one was 10 THE LAST OF THE CAMEL-BACKS. completely dismantled and thrown into thescrap heap. Of course, these engines underwentchanges in detail which materially alteredtheir appearance during the period of theirexistence. The cab as originally built wasmuch shorter; the locomotive was equii)pedwith pumps for feeding water into theboilers, and the stack consisted of twocylinders in lower ])ortion, one connectedto the boiler and the other i)laced ahead foundation patents,
. Book of the Royal blue . nce which time they havebeen gradually wearing out and lieing des-trnved, until in ISDS the last one was 10 THE LAST OF THE CAMEL-BACKS. completely dismantled and thrown into thescrap heap. Of course, these engines underwentchanges in detail which materially alteredtheir appearance during the period of theirexistence. The cab as originally built wasmuch shorter; the locomotive was equii)pedwith pumps for feeding water into theboilers, and the stack consisted of twocylinders in lower ])ortion, one connectedto the boiler and the other i)laced ahead foundation patents, which covered the prin-ciple of varying the of the ex-haust from the cylinder for the purpose ofcontrolling the draft of locomotive. Thispractically excluded all other inventors inthis field until the expiration of his fire-box as originally built had the• whole back end open, which was closedwith sheet iron doors, so constructed thatthe whole rear end could be thrown openat the will of the A OK THK IKCr 1,1 Ali | OK THK (AMI-;!. of same, the two joining together in a tri-angular box at the top end, which was inturn covered with a wire cloth, depositingsparks in the second cylinder, thus makinga spark arrester. At the termination of atrip the cinders were removed by a hingeddoor in the bottom of the second these locomotives Winans broughtout what was known in railroad circles asthe variable exhaust, which was used forthe i>urpose of increasing the draft on loco-motives. His patent was one of those pjUgine 185, as shown in the illustra-tion, was the first of this class of enginesbuilt and remained in constant service from1851 until 1898, when it was retired alto-gether, after forty-seven years active ser-vice. This is probably the longest recordmade by any locomotive in existence. Engine 143 was taken off the Trans-Ohio Division of the Haltimore <& OhioRailroad ten years ago and put into theshops at Mou
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