. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ghterand happier your holiday, and the bettersatisfied will the world be with you. September, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 403 Minneapolis and St. Louis Engines. The Baldwin Locomotive Works haverecently completed 14 locomotives for theMinneapolis and St. Louis of these engines are of the ten-wheel type for passenger service; seven areof the consolidation type for freightservice, while the remaining three arcmogul switchers. We may luetuion thattwelve consolidation t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ghterand happier your holiday, and the bettersatisfied will the world be with you. September, 1909. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 403 Minneapolis and St. Louis Engines. The Baldwin Locomotive Works haverecently completed 14 locomotives for theMinneapolis and St. Louis of these engines are of the ten-wheel type for passenger service; seven areof the consolidation type for freightservice, while the remaining three arcmogul switchers. We may luetuion thattwelve consolidation type locomotivessimilar in all respects to the Minneapolisand St. Louis engines, have also beenconstructed for the Iowa Central Railway. THE 4-6-0 TYPE. The ten-wheel locomotives atractive force of 28,660 lbs., and whiletheir boiler capacity is not as great ascould be provided in a pacific type loco-comotive with the same weight on drivingwheels, they are, however, admirably,adapted to the handling of heavy pas-senger traffic. In common with the con-sqjidation type engines, these locomotives. MOGUL SWITCHER FOR THE M. & ST. L. R.^iILRO-VD. bracket, and is provided, on the inside,with a lug to which the valve yoke isattached. This is a simple form of con-nection by which the use of rockers isavoided. The links on the ten-wheelersare supported outside the leading drivers,by longitudinal bearers, and the reverseshaft is carried on a crosstie which spansthe frames ahead of the main drivers. buckle plate at the rear. A brick archis used, and it is carried on four watertubes, 3 ins. in diameter. The grate isprovided with a drop plate at the back,and the ash-pan is self-dumping. Thetender presents no unusual features ofconstruction. The frame is built of 13-inch steel channels, and the trucks areequipped with forged and rolled steel 1 .jm to- m .* 1 ■ • - S M ■~T T- ti? T3 ! ^ ..:^3sa ■ ■.. J- : V . _ w^ „..;ii,,v- - i Wt. 7? >■ jj^ „>;!^ y- sBuS^^E
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