. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . x18ins., the driving wheels being 66 ins. di-ameter. That ended the work of thefirst locomotive building company inNew England. Their engines neverwere popular and made little mark onthe art of locomotive building. HINKLEY X: DRURYs START IN LOCOMO-TIVE BUILDING. In 1839 Hinkley & Drury began loco-motive building in Boston, their first en-gine being the Lion, which was carriedon four wheels connected and 4iad out-side cylinders. That engine resembledthe De Witt Clinton, belonging to theMohawk
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . x18ins., the driving wheels being 66 ins. di-ameter. That ended the work of thefirst locomotive building company inNew England. Their engines neverwere popular and made little mark onthe art of locomotive building. HINKLEY X: DRURYs START IN LOCOMO-TIVE BUILDING. In 1839 Hinkley & Drury began loco-motive building in Boston, their first en-gine being the Lion, which was carriedon four wheels connected and 4iad out-side cylinders. That engine resembledthe De Witt Clinton, belonging to theMohawk Valley Road, but had a slightlylarger boiler with a small wagon lOpfire box and a big dome on the middleof the boiler. Hinkley & Drury engagedseriously in the work of locomotivebuilding and eventually turned out manyexcellent locomotives that compared fa-vorably with the productions of the bestshops in the country. In their secondengine they yielded to the popular trendof New England practice, introduced bythe Locks & Canal Company, and made •an iifeide connected and four wheel con-. .^LiDl^UiX FIRST long inside, 42 ins. wide and 37J4 , the grate area being squarefeet. There was about 37 square feet ofheating surface in the fire box and about262 square feet in the tubes, making atotal of about 300 square feet of heatingsurface. The engine had drop hook valve mo-tion operated under the smoke box. Thesteam ports were 154x6 ins., and the ex-haust port i/2x6 ins. There were two nected engine which had, however, a fourwheel truck in front. This practice ofbuilding inside connected engines wasfollowed by Hinkley and Drury for aboutten years, until the demand of railroadcompanies for outside cylinder enginesinduced the builders to conform to thepopular taste and do away with the nec-essity for a cranked axle. It is curious how wedded some menbecome to the idols of their own con- April, 1904. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 175 slnictio
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