. Railway age gazette . description of tlie PennsylvaniaMikado and Pacific type locomotives, classes Lis and K4s, waspublished in the Daily Railway Age Gazette for June IS, 1914,page 1411. Some of tlie data given in this article were ap-proximations which were all that could be obtained at that time,and will be found to differ slightly from the present figures,which are correct.] During the past few years there has arisen a need for a largerfreight locomotive for use on the main line of the PennsylvaniaRailroad between .-Mtoona and Pittsburgh, The employment of motives has been carried out as
. Railway age gazette . description of tlie PennsylvaniaMikado and Pacific type locomotives, classes Lis and K4s, waspublished in the Daily Railway Age Gazette for June IS, 1914,page 1411. Some of tlie data given in this article were ap-proximations which were all that could be obtained at that time,and will be found to differ slightly from the present figures,which are correct.] During the past few years there has arisen a need for a largerfreight locomotive for use on the main line of the PennsylvaniaRailroad between .-Mtoona and Pittsburgh, The employment of motives has been carried out as far as possible, as well as theuse of many of the parts which are embodied in the class E6sAtlantic type locomotive.* The boilers of the Pacific and Mikado locomotives are inter-changeable, and an interesting feature is the flanging of thethroat sheet in an integral piece with the lower half of therear barrel sheet. This has permitted of lowering the boilerls in., and at the same time allows sufficient clearance for the. Pennsylvania Mikado Type Locomotive such an engine is desirable in order to reduce double headingto a miniinum, and to avoid the necessity of breaking up trainswhich arrive at xMtoona and Pittsburgh, and sending them for-ward over the Pittsburgh division in sections. At the sametime it was thought desirable to experiment with a heavyPacific type locomotive for passenger service on this has accordingly been designed and built a Mikado typelocomotive which bears the railway companys classification Lisand a Pacific type designated as class K4s. It was necessary to keep the locomotives within certain limits. rear driving wheels. The boiler is of the Belpaire type, andhas 237 2J4 i. tubes, and 40 Syi in. superheater flues, all ofwhich are 19 ft. long. The firebox is 126 in. long by 80 , and is fitted with a combustion chamber; the grate areais 70 sq. ft. The inside diameter of the boiler at the forwardend is JSyi in., with an inside diameter of
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