. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SUPERHEATER SWITCHER FOR THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY. K. .Liayle, Superintendent of .Motive Power. Baldwin Locomotive Works, Builders. from the use of superheated steam in Locomotive Works. The locomotive for includes a steam jet smoke-burner, and road service, are realized also in switch- the Chicago & Northwestern is one of also a brick arch supported on two water ing service. There is considerable 29 completed for that road, and five simi- tubes. With the help of these devices, ec
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SUPERHEATER SWITCHER FOR THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY. K. .Liayle, Superintendent of .Motive Power. Baldwin Locomotive Works, Builders. from the use of superheated steam in Locomotive Works. The locomotive for includes a steam jet smoke-burner, and road service, are realized also in switch- the Chicago & Northwestern is one of also a brick arch supported on two water ing service. There is considerable 29 completed for that road, and five simi- tubes. With the help of these devices, economy in fuel and water consumption, lar locomotives have been built for the high volatile coal can be burned with and hence with a tender of given size Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha very little smoke. The superheater is. SUPERHEATER SWITCHER FOR THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND QUINCY W. Cyr, Superintendent of Motive Power. Baldwin Locomotive Works, Builders. it is not necessary for the superheaterlocomotive to run to the fuel bin andwater tank as often as is the case whenusing saturated steam. Valuable time issaved in this way. Furthermore, the su-perheater, by reducing the demands made Ry. Fifty locomotives, as illustrated,have been constructed for the Chicago,Burlington & Quincy Railroad. The locomotives for the Chicago &North Western are equipped with Schmidtsuperheaters, and exert a tractive force composed of 16 elements and it is of thetop header type with outside steam smokebox is fitted with the Slaterfront end arrangement, as developed onthe North Western. The cvlinders of these locomotives are 250 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. July, 1913. lined with steeled cast-iron bushings, %; and the steam distribution is con-trolled by 11 inch piston valves which
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