. American engineer and railroad journal . BALANCED COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVE WITH INCLINED HIGH PRESSURE CYLINDERS. A., T. & S. F. BY. FOUR-CYLINDER BALANCED COMPOUND LOCOMO-TIVE WITH INCLINED HIGH PRESSURE CYLINDERS. ATCHISON, TOlEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY. On page 434 of the November issue of this journal was il-lustrated and described a very large and powerful Prairietype locomotive, an order of which was recently built by theBaldwin Locomotive Works for the Atchison, Topeka & SantaFe Railway. At that time were shown the general elevationsof the locomotive, and the interesting numerical computationf
. American engineer and railroad journal . BALANCED COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVE WITH INCLINED HIGH PRESSURE CYLINDERS. A., T. & S. F. BY. FOUR-CYLINDER BALANCED COMPOUND LOCOMO-TIVE WITH INCLINED HIGH PRESSURE CYLINDERS. ATCHISON, TOlEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY. On page 434 of the November issue of this journal was il-lustrated and described a very large and powerful Prairietype locomotive, an order of which was recently built by theBaldwin Locomotive Works for the Atchison, Topeka & SantaFe Railway. At that time were shown the general elevationsof the locomotive, and the interesting numerical computationfor obtaining the proper counterbalance weights to be placedin the driving wheels, which weights, due to the inclination. VIEW SHOWING CYLINDERS OF BALANCED COMPOUND , T. &. S. F. BY. of the high pressure cylinders, were found to vary nearly500 lbs. between the two main driving wheels on the sameaxle. We are now able to show photographic illustrationsand other details of these powerful locomotives. As mentioned in the previous article, the raising and in-clination of the high-pressure cylinders for the purpose ofhaving the inside main rod pass over the front drivingaxle and connect to the second cranked axle introducesno particular complication outside of the cylinders and coun-terbalance. A study of the illustrations of the cylindersgiven herewith will show how the ports and connectionsbetween the valve chamber and the two cylinders, whosecentre lines are not in the same horizontal plane have beenarranged. This is the largest four-cylinder bal-anced compound locomotive ever built, and for thepurpose of giving sufficient port openings to fur-nish a 17%-in. high-pressure cylinder with ste
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