. Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States . or adhesion. An engine of the above style upon theLehigh Valley Railroad, with 61 inch drivers, cylinders 18 X 24inches, grate 8£ feet by 35 inches, the heating surface being 108 feet,tubes 178 of if inch, and 15 of 2 inch diameter, with a surface of THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE. 401 978 feet, or a total surface of 1087 feet, with 31 tons upon thedrivers, has taken 75 coal cars, weighing 3 tons each, or 225 tonsexc
. Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States . or adhesion. An engine of the above style upon theLehigh Valley Railroad, with 61 inch drivers, cylinders 18 X 24inches, grate 8£ feet by 35 inches, the heating surface being 108 feet,tubes 178 of if inch, and 15 of 2 inch diameter, with a surface of THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE. 401 978 feet, or a total surface of 1087 feet, with 31 tons upon thedrivers, has taken 75 coal cars, weighing 3 tons each, or 225 tonsexclusive of engine ami tender, over a 96 feet grade ; and hashauled 11 passenger cars, with a load of 700 passengers, over 60feet grades, at 14 miles an hour. Plate XXX. represents side and end views of the Mogul, asbuilt by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the dimensions beingas follows : Cylinders, 17 inches in diameter and 24 in wheels, 54 inches. Truck wheels, 30 inches. Fire-box,60 inches long, 35 inches wide, and 67 inches high. Fire-box sur-face, 105 square feet. Grate, 60 inches long, 35 inches wide ;area, square feet. Tubes, 156 in number, 11 2| long, and 2. Fig. diameter. Tube surface, 917 square feet. The weight ofthis engine, In working order, is 70,000 pounds, of which 61,000pounds are on the drivers and 9,000 on the truck. The tender,loaded, weighs 40,000 pounds. The total wheel base is 21 driving-wheel base is 14 6, the front and back driving-wheels being flanged, the middle ones plain. The pony truck,having a swing bolster and radius bar, the rigid wheel base is theabove 14 6. Total wheel base of engine and tender, 43 length over all, 53 8. Length of engine, 36 7. Heightof engine over house, 10 7 ; over stack, 146. Width of buffer,9 feet. Fig. 162 shows the ten-wheeled freight engine, as built by the26 402 MANUAL FOR RAILROAD ENGINEERS. Baldwin Locomotive Works, and shown in detail in Plate cylinders are 18 X 24
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