. American engineer and railroad journal . /.A. Pacific Type Passenger Locomotive With Schmidt Superheater NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. Passenger trains, weighing over 800 tons, wliicli niiisi be han-dled at high speeds, are becoming not uncommon on many of therailways. This is particularly true on the New York Centraland Pennsylvania Lines, and during winter weather and periodsof heavy traffic it is often necessary to double head these trainsover certain divisions. Both of these systems have Pacific orAtlantic type locomotives which are able to make schedule time order of 20 engines of this type a
. American engineer and railroad journal . /.A. Pacific Type Passenger Locomotive With Schmidt Superheater NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. Passenger trains, weighing over 800 tons, wliicli niiisi be han-dled at high speeds, are becoming not uncommon on many of therailways. This is particularly true on the New York Centraland Pennsylvania Lines, and during winter weather and periodsof heavy traffic it is often necessary to double head these trainsover certain divisions. Both of these systems have Pacific orAtlantic type locomotives which are able to make schedule time order of 20 engines of this type a careful study of the situationwas made. In connection with the American Locomotive were carried out and it was finally decided that theincreased capacity desired could be satisfactorily attained throughthe medium of superheated steam, therefore the last order wasequipped with the latest design of Schmidt fire tube superheat-ers. ■ Careful tests with a single locomotive equipped in this. HIGH SPEED PACIFIC TYPE LOCO-MOTIVE WITH SUPERHEATER—NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. with till, it I-eavy trains, but when called upon tu make up timeor wlicn handicapped by severe weather they have not sufficientreserve power. » On tlie New York Central Lines the standard heavy passciitjcr■engine has been for several years a Pacific type with 22 x 28 in.•cylinders. 79 in. wheels and 4,210 sq. ft. of heating surface. Theselocomotives were fully illustrated and described in this journalon page 365 of the September, 1907, and 164 of the May, 1908,issues. The service with them in the past has been eminentlysatisfactory in every way and up to a comparatively recent datethey had sufficient reserve power for all emergencies. The in-troduction of steel passenger cars and Pullmans, together withthe increased passenger traffic, however, has finally brought theweight of passenger trains to a point where it was desirable tohave a more powerful Ineomotive. and before mnkinj the last
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