. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 40 inches long, where the finalmixing of the gases is likely to the combustion chamber 652 tubes,iH inches diameter and 13 feet 7 incheslong, convey the products of combustion to the smokebox. The details of thisnovel boiler are admirably worked out,each furnace is lined with firebrick, andthere is a wall of the same material at thepoint where the burner delivers the oilvapor. The engine, which is of the regular Vau-clain compound type, has cylinders 17 and28 X 32 inches stroke and
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 40 inches long, where the finalmixing of the gases is likely to the combustion chamber 652 tubes,iH inches diameter and 13 feet 7 incheslong, convey the products of combustion to the smokebox. The details of thisnovel boiler are admirably worked out,each furnace is lined with firebrick, andthere is a wall of the same material at thepoint where the burner delivers the oilvapor. The engine, which is of the regular Vau-clain compound type, has cylinders 17 and28 X 32 inches stroke and the drivingwheels are 57 inches outside diameter. The 3Tct/iod of pijtiii*j weight on driving wheels is 176,000 gives the engine about 43,000 poundstractive power and a ratio of power toadhesion of 4. The boiler shell is 74 -nchesdiameter at the smallest ring, has a dome21Y2 inches diameter and a safety valveturret 15 inches diameter. The workingpressure is 210 pounds. There is an un-usually large heating •-urface of 4,266square feet, 4,031 of that being in the tubes, lo Oil Utalev. r« . I ir 7*1. ..■;> ^^^Z^^HZ Saiiwtif f Ltmmvttpe I^i-:, iA^ris^ 3-1 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING January, 1902 165 square feet in the furnaces and 70square feet in the combustion bearing surfaces are provided forthe working parts, as might be main journals are g,< x 12 inches andthe others 9x12 inches. The engine truckjournals are 6j-4xio;< inches. The en-gine has a wheel base of 54 feet 2.)4 inches, of that being in the driving tender is built to carry 6,000 gallonsof water and 2,200 gallons of oil. Locomotive Engineers Wanted. The editor of and LocomotiveEngineering has applications occasionallyfrom railroad officials for good locomotiveengineers. It has been our practice to keepa list of men out of employment, but atpresent there is not a single name on thelist. Good locomotive engineers willingto work on South
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