. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . leading from the low-pressure cylinders to It is claimed that, as compared with or- the blast-pipe. dinary engines, the duplex locomotives * engines proper are built have effected a saving of from 15 to 22 per It , grate surface, 13.; sq. ft.; ; i in.; distance between buffers, 33 fiIi^ in.; total wheel base, 15 ft. )^ i:weight, with full provisions, 89,200 pounds ;weight, empty, 71,600 pounds ; water ca-pacity, 7,710 pounds; coal, 2,20O pounds. K-ccs- Besides the above-n 3e fa- ^^^ duple-x t
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . leading from the low-pressure cylinders to It is claimed that, as compared with or- the blast-pipe. dinary engines, the duplex locomotives * engines proper are built have effected a saving of from 15 to 22 per It , grate surface, 13.; sq. ft.; ; i in.; distance between buffers, 33 fiIi^ in.; total wheel base, 15 ft. )^ i:weight, with full provisions, 89,200 pounds ;weight, empty, 71,600 pounds ; water ca-pacity, 7,710 pounds; coal, 2,20O pounds. K-ccs- Besides the above-n 3e fa- ^^^ duple-x type there I,i^h. ning on other roads in Switzerland, the total number in that country- isnow twenty-five, of which eight are nar-row gauge (3 ft, 3>i in,). They have allbeen built by J. A. Maffei, in Munich. cylinder ang t ten where angle-cocks have been foundwrong, they have been left ,hat way bycareless or incompetent trainmen. Surely under the car in place of one, he will makeIw-ice as many mistakes. The maliciousperson and the tramp may have done tht-ir e being overworked in tl. or it. One and a half inche used m some of theire tests were made to de-or not the fastenings werecable. Socketswith taperk ope o^nes, to receive theng in a fork to fasten to the gb the h le and the ends ofd ba k making a bushy imass of twisted and doubledr lead or babbit metal. 1 pres It > r regula nproi ock busi Some one will yet devise some simpleimprovement —like a hole or a valve—in the present apparatus that will givewarning when any cock in the trainis turned wrong, and this will be donewithout extra parts to handle. On passen-ger trains this is a simple problem of someconnection between the brake-pipe andsignal-pipe, but on freight trains it willt the brake I Railroad. Us i e front framii the hind framing tieal hinge. The low-press cylinders, 15^4 in, ;cylinders, 32^ in. ; stroke,es the 25A in.; tractive force. 19,810 pounds;front heating surface of firebox, 100 square ft.;boiler h
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