. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . t it is far less variable than is th e ca e with Stephen- snns, besides the li nk and die block being Straight are much cr repaired Ihau curved ones; the 1 chests of these engines are on th old system, between llic cylinders, the 1 tter are u inches in diameter, with a 20- inch stroke. The big ends are of the 0 dina ry marine type. \m\ s, holding the brasses to^;eth^■ ap^ inl outers being raps % Ihere is a compensating beam betweenihe driving and trailing wheels, and theweight being carefully di
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . t it is far less variable than is th e ca e with Stephen- snns, besides the li nk and die block being Straight are much cr repaired Ihau curved ones; the 1 chests of these engines are on th old system, between llic cylinders, the 1 tter are u inches in diameter, with a 20- inch stroke. The big ends are of the 0 dina ry marine type. \m\ s, holding the brasses to^;eth^■ ap^ inl outers being raps % Ihere is a compensating beam betweenihe driving and trailing wheels, and theweight being carefully distributed theengines run remarkably easy, the bogiein front enabling it to round curves with-out any torsion whatever. The enginesarc fitted with a good steam-brake in ad-iiiion to the ordinary brakes; they arecapable of running at high speed, andhauhng heavy loads ; the boilers carry a These engines have done eKCcUent work,the load for mail beijig twenty carriages,and on ordinary passenger trains, twenty-four ; the average speed for the formers being thirty miles, the latter twenty-. eight n The 1 sections; grades of 1 in 150 being The writer has ridden on these when they were running forly- les an hour, with a light special I would suggest that a good way to ef-fectually dispose of train robbers would beto give them a good dose of lightning. This could be carried in the express carbottled up in the shape of a storage bat-tery, at a high potential, say a thousandvolts. The c one side of the battery and the car floor tothe other side, everything is ready for thereception of the iJime Novel Heroes. When called upon to deliver his treasure,the messenger could invite the heroesaboard and to help themselves, then throw-ing a switch, stand back and watch themdance for his edification as they makefutile attempts to lay hands on the box. In place of the storage batUTy, fi ballcry by the frictio of the e caping steam while the exhaust s St 1 c leu. Compression does not begi \i III th
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