. French railways . NORD ESGINE is chietly remarkable for the construction of thefirebox, which is composed of a series of watertubes of small diameter, to which the water isconducted through large circulating pipes. Ad-vantage being taken of the great strength of thewater tubes, the steam pressure has been in-creased to 25() lb. per square inch. Except that FRENCH RAILWAYS 63 the trailing end of the engine is carried on a bogieinstead of one pair of small wheels, the generalarrangement is the same as with the NOED ENGINE (ANOTHER VIEW). As with the passenger engine
. French railways . NORD ESGINE is chietly remarkable for the construction of thefirebox, which is composed of a series of watertubes of small diameter, to which the water isconducted through large circulating pipes. Ad-vantage being taken of the great strength of thewater tubes, the steam pressure has been in-creased to 25() lb. per square inch. Except that FRENCH RAILWAYS 63 the trailing end of the engine is carried on a bogieinstead of one pair of small wheels, the generalarrangement is the same as with the NOED ENGINE (ANOTHER VIEW). As with the passenger engines, the goods andtank engines of recent construction are generallymuch bigger than those which were built a fewyears ago. A considerable part of the goods trafficis worked by six-coupled four-cylinder compound 64 FRENCH RAILWAYS engines with a leading bogie and wheels of moderatediameter (4-6-0), which are also used for passengertrains. Several of the railways have adopted goodsengines with much the same boilers as the biggestexpress engines, running on ten wheels, eight ofwhich are coupled (2-8-0). The four-cylindercompound system is employed in these engines.
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