. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 50-1. just in front of these wheels are two horizontal cylinders, one on each side ofthe engine. Piston rods from the cylinders reach backward, and the connectionto the wheel is very novel and ingenious. The inside huh of each wheel hasratchet teeth formed on it for one-half its diameter; into these teeth workcorresponding ones on horizontal racks, one above the hub and one the piston moves toward the back end of the cylinder the upper rackengages the hub teeth and revolves the wheels forward,
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 50-1. just in front of these wheels are two horizontal cylinders, one on each side ofthe engine. Piston rods from the cylinders reach backward, and the connectionto the wheel is very novel and ingenious. The inside huh of each wheel hasratchet teeth formed on it for one-half its diameter; into these teeth workcorresponding ones on horizontal racks, one above the hub and one the piston moves toward the back end of the cylinder the upper rackengages the hub teeth and revolves the wheels forward, and when the returnstroke is made the lower rack engages the hub teeth and continues the revo-lution. Steam pipes enter each cylinder head, front and back, near the insideand exhaust pipes on the opposite or outside of the heads. There are twosteam valves and two exhaust valves to each cylinder, operated by an attach-ment to the racks, the exhaust being into the atmosphere. Each cylinder hasits steam pipe from the boiler provided with a stop cock, and one cylinder orboth can be worked at th
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