. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tive Works for the New York Central &Hudson River Railroad Company. The engines were built to specifica- [Trade-Mark Registered.] NEW YORK. FEBRUARY, 1807. ing boxes are of solid magnus metal. Thedriving wheels are cast of gun iron. Thepiston rods are extended through frontcylinder heads—a practice which has beenfound very advantageous by Mr. Buchan-an—reducing to a minimum the troublewith wear of cylinders and broken pistonrods. There were ten engines in the above lot,five of which had drivers 78 inches
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tive Works for the New York Central &Hudson River Railroad Company. The engines were built to specifica- [Trade-Mark Registered.] NEW YORK. FEBRUARY, 1807. ing boxes are of solid magnus metal. Thedriving wheels are cast of gun iron. Thepiston rods are extended through frontcylinder heads—a practice which has beenfound very advantageous by Mr. Buchan-an—reducing to a minimum the troublewith wear of cylinders and broken pistonrods. There were ten engines in the above lot,five of which had drivers 78 inches, asshown by cut and specification, while five No. 2. through the streets of Syracuse, a dis-tance of about i/z miles, in compliancewith that citys ordinance limiting thespeed to eight miles per hour. Deductingten minutes for the time in running theiJ/2 miles in Syracuse and three minutesstop at Utica, leaves the running timefrom the city limit of Syracuse to Albanytwo hours and seventeen minutes. De-ducting the il/z miles in Syracuse fromthe total distance leaves miles,. tions and drawings prepared by Mr. , superintendent of motivepower and rolling stock of the New YorkCentral & Hudson River Railroad, andthough somewhat similar to those previ-ously designed by Mr. Buchanan, andwhich are rendering such efficient ser-vice, possess many features of markedimprovement. As will be seen from the specification,the boilers of the new engines have a verylarge heating and grate surface—a veryimportant feature in fast heavy traffic,and one which Mr. Buchanan has alwaysadvocated. The driving and truck jour-nals are of very large si?e. while the driv- BUCHANANS LATEST FLYER. were duplicates, excepting having driv-ers 70 inches diameter. All these engines are in fast service onthe celebrated Empire State Fast Mail, and the Chicago, St. Louis& Cincinnati Limited trains, and have al-ready made some exceptionally fast timeon these trains. On December 1st one
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