. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . erv high economy in the use of fuel and starting; ])orts, which are an essential feature of thelimited cut-otl. provide means for readil\- and (juicklystarting the lix-omotive in either direction. Compensatingports are also provided in the head end of the valve bush-ing. The function of these ports is to lengthen slightlythe cut-off on the head end of the cylinder, therely in-creasing the tractive effort without a corresponding de-crease in the minimum factor of adhesion. Plugs are
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . erv high economy in the use of fuel and starting; ])orts, which are an essential feature of thelimited cut-otl. provide means for readil\- and (juicklystarting the lix-omotive in either direction. Compensatingports are also provided in the head end of the valve bush-ing. The function of these ports is to lengthen slightlythe cut-off on the head end of the cylinder, therely in-creasing the tractive effort without a corresponding de-crease in the minimum factor of adhesion. Plugs are provided in the side of the steam chest opix)-site the starting ports for cleaning purposes, and the ar-rangement oi the |iorts and starting slots A are as shown iron, liffective lubrication at all times is assured by theuse of lx)th a hydrostatic and a mechanical lubricator. Machinery details include piston heads of rolled steel,with gun iron bull rings: piston rods of normalized car-bon vanadium steel; and crank pins and valve gear forg-ings. with the exxeption of the eccentric rods, of the same. Longitudinal Section of Cylinders of Eight-Wheel Switching Loco-motive for the Texas & Pacific Ry. material. The main crank pins are hollow bored. Thecross hands are of the alligator type, with chrome vana-dium steel keys; and the guides and guide yoke are ofmost substantial construction, designed for severe main rods are of the articulated type, distributing April. l^2 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING the loail l^etwcen the crank pins of the third and fourthpairs of driving wheels. Floating bronze bushings areused on tlie intermediate side rod connections. The mainand side rods are of normalized carbon vanadium treate in. on the front and back drivers, and 9/16 in. onthe intermediate and main pairs. The frames are 5 inches wide, and special attention hasbeen given to the transverse bracing in order to insureample sirength and preserve ali
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