. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG THE REMODELED ENGINE. RUBEN WELLS. curve, after which the road paralleledthe Ohio River. The train, in its rapiddescent, would either go off into the is, carrying the water and fuel on the-frame and wheels of the engine proper,,the tank holding 1,800 gallons of water. June, [908. K\ AND LOCOMOT! I I G) 259 The weight of the engine with fuel andwater is 112,000 lbs. The cylinderpower, with an average effective pres-sure in the cylinders of 100 lbs. per , is capable of exerting
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG THE REMODELED ENGINE. RUBEN WELLS. curve, after which the road paralleledthe Ohio River. The train, in its rapiddescent, would either go off into the is, carrying the water and fuel on the-frame and wheels of the engine proper,,the tank holding 1,800 gallons of water. June, [908. K\ AND LOCOMOT! I I G) 259 The weight of the engine with fuel andwater is 112,000 lbs. The cylinderpower, with an average effective pres-sure in the cylinders of 100 lbs. per , is capable of exerting a tractiveforce of 21,818 lbs. on a level road, lessthe friction of the working parts of theengine FIG. 4. THE DANIEL NASON. Some years later the engine was re-built, in part, Fig. 3, the number ofdriving wheels being decreased to fourpairs. A portion of the coal and waterspace at the rear was cut off, and asaddle tank was placed on the M. & I. R. R. was absorbed bythe Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago &St. Louis, in 1873, and the ReubenWells became No. 635 of that of the old rack-rail locomotives,the M. G. Bright, was rebuilt onsimilar lines to the Reuben Wells. Itexploded its boiler in 1S77. The Reu-ben Wells was in constant use untila few years ago, when the company de-cided to retire her. The incline is atpresent worked by a powerful eight-coupled side tank locomotive, built in1896. Before sending the Reuben
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