. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rod are attached to the arms of anintermediate rock shaft, the motion beingindirect. The eccentric throw is sVz steel, with bronze shoes. The guides areof steel. The low-pressure crosshead andguides on each side of the locomotive arelocated outside the frames and the cross-head is coupled with the main drivingwheel, which in this locomotive is thefront wheel, by a connecting rod, as inordinary practice. In addition, the mainaxle has two cranks set at right anglesto each other, one on each sid
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rod are attached to the arms of anintermediate rock shaft, the motion beingindirect. The eccentric throw is sVz steel, with bronze shoes. The guides areof steel. The low-pressure crosshead andguides on each side of the locomotive arelocated outside the frames and the cross-head is coupled with the main drivingwheel, which in this locomotive is thefront wheel, by a connecting rod, as inordinary practice. In addition, the mainaxle has two cranks set at right anglesto each other, one on each side of thecenter of the locomotive, and each crankis coupled to a crosshead of one of thehigh-pressure pistons. The crank on theaxle and the crank-pin in the wheel forthe corresponding high- and low-pressurecylinders are set at an angle of 180 de-grees ; the two axle cranks being set atgo degrees, brings the action of each high-and low-pressure cylinder on one side ofthe locomotive quartering with the equiv-alent cylinder on the opposite side. Maicli, \J02. RAILWAY AND IX)COMOTIVK l;Nf;INI:KR1NG 137. 138 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINLKKING March, 1902. The axles of all driving wheels are ofslcel, manufactured by the BethlehemSteel Company. The steam passages mthe cylinders arc so designed that thereare no pockets where water can collect. Certain advantages are expected of thissystem of compounding, besides the rec-ognized ones of economy of fuel andsteam. The most important one is thefact that by a crank axle connected withpistons traveling in opposite directionsfrom each other an almost perfectly bal-anced engine is secured. The main driv-ing wheels are practically self-counter-balanced by the positions of the insidecranks with relation lo the outside wrist-pins and their respective connections. Itis only necessary to counterbalance suchportions of the main wheels as are notsufficiently balanced by the cranks. Theother driving wheels are counterbalancedeach for its own rotating w
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