. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e accompanying illustration is of asimple, wide fire box, slide valve subur-ban locomotive recently built by the above. This arrangement compensatesfor the backward motion of the reach-rod in this case and lowers the linksso that, when the reverse lever is thrownforward, the engine moves ahead in con-formity with usual practice. When thereverse lever is thrown back the linksare raised and the valve gear is operatedby the back-up eccentrics. The main drivers are the only wheelsnot flanged. The
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e accompanying illustration is of asimple, wide fire box, slide valve subur-ban locomotive recently built by the above. This arrangement compensatesfor the backward motion of the reach-rod in this case and lowers the linksso that, when the reverse lever is thrownforward, the engine moves ahead in con-formity with usual practice. When thereverse lever is thrown back the linksare raised and the valve gear is operatedby the back-up eccentrics. The main drivers are the only wheelsnot flanged. The springs are on topof the boxes and the pony truck andleading driver are equalized together, andthe main and trailing drivers are alsoequalized together. The boiler is 66 ins. diameter at thesmoke box end and is of the wagontop type. There are in it altogether1, sq. ft. of heating surface, of whichthe tubes give 1, sq. ft. The gratearea is sq. ft. and the fuel is anthra-cite buckwheat There are 447 tubes 9ft. long, diameter 1% ins. The auxiliarydome carrying the pop safety valves is. \ ^: READING 2 -«- 4 FOR SUBURBAN TRAFFIC. sured, a lew moments later, that thefreight was under control and the dis-tance between us rapidly increasing, Ishut ofT, whistled for brakes and not longafter was brought up safely by the handbrakes at Union station. Now, some of mj readers no doubtwill attribute this narrow escape to astreak of good luck, but I do not tliinkso, for had it not been for the knowl-edge I had gathered regarding the au-tomatic apparatus we would have beenstruck by that freight train, moving ata speed of at least 40 miles an hour, andit can only be conjectured what wouldliave been the result to the 127 passen-gers at the time aboard the train, little realized the narrow escapethey had had from disaster. My effortsto avert an accident were never rewardedby a medal or other insignia of grati-tude on the part of the railroad com-pany, but it
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