. American engineer and railroad journal . is usually provided. Through the courtesy of Mr. J. W. Fitz Gibbon, until re-cently Superintendent of Motive Power of the Lackawanna, weare permitted to describe this interesting practice, which con-sists of making the distance between the inside faces of alltires a standard of 53% in., the lateral play of the wheels uponthe rails being different for the various axles, this play beingprovided for by the thickness of the flanges. The distance be-tween tires was made to suit the guard rails, and the questionsconcerning the inside and outside of the tire
. American engineer and railroad journal . is usually provided. Through the courtesy of Mr. J. W. Fitz Gibbon, until re-cently Superintendent of Motive Power of the Lackawanna, weare permitted to describe this interesting practice, which con-sists of making the distance between the inside faces of alltires a standard of 53% in., the lateral play of the wheels uponthe rails being different for the various axles, this play beingprovided for by the thickness of the flanges. The distance be-tween tires was made to suit the guard rails, and the questionsconcerning the inside and outside of the tires were consideredseparately. The simplicity of the plan appears in the diagrams. Fig. 11shows the original tire section for the rear wheel of a -i-wheelconnected passenger engine in which the lateral play is % each side, or a total of hi in. The dotted line in Fig. 12shows the form of the flange of the front wheel to secure theamount of lateral play required. This principle applies to all 136 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD fJ^1U4= riij^r_hoj,frmie^ *__1. _ !* -^-^ W te---7^j --;^5- ^ --//-9 ;>^-7-- >/1L A Locomotive Study,—A Suggestion in Wide Fireboxes
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