. American engineer and railroad journal . Boiler and Machinery of Steam Motor Car. The following table gives the general dimensions of the engineand car, together with a number of items of interest concerningthe design: GENERAL Gauge 4 feet 8J^ inc^ss Fuel Coke Weight, in working order pounds Weight on drivers 70,000 pounds Wheel-base, driving 8 feet Wheel-base, total 56 fest 10 inches AND RAILROAD JOURNAL 369 Diameter of cylinder- Stroke of piston Horizontal ihicknes* of p ston Diameterof piston rod Piston packing Steam Dort9 Kxhaus ports Bridged 12 inches IB inches ... 4)4 inches 2


. American engineer and railroad journal . Boiler and Machinery of Steam Motor Car. The following table gives the general dimensions of the engineand car, together with a number of items of interest concerningthe design: GENERAL Gauge 4 feet 8J^ inc^ss Fuel Coke Weight, in working order pounds Weight on drivers 70,000 pounds Wheel-base, driving 8 feet Wheel-base, total 56 fest 10 inches AND RAILROAD JOURNAL 369 Diameter of cylinder- Stroke of piston Horizontal ihicknes* of p ston Diameterof piston rod Piston packing Steam Dort9 Kxhaus ports Bridged 12 inches IB inches ... 4)4 inches 2 inche6 .Cas-iron rings 10 bv t inch ...10 by 2 inches 1i nch Valvegear Valves Greatest valve travel Outside lap Iu9ide lap L»ad of valves, lull gear WHKKLS AND JOURNALS. Diameter driving wheels, outside tire Centers Driving boxes Walschaert American balanced 4)i inches . % inch Line and line Consiani H inch 42 inches Cast iron Steeled cast iron. Boiler ana Machinery of Qteam Motor Car. Syle Circular, uoright, with steam drum Outside diameter Top, 63 ; bottom, 52 inches Working pressure 200 pounds I hickness of plates ^. & and },v inches Horizontal seams Double, with welt inside, quadruple riveted Circumferential seams Single riveted Firebox, diameter 4o% inches depth 17M» inches ** plates Sides ,*,,, tube sheet t§ inch Water space 3 to 3\*i all around Stay bolts .Taylor iron, 1 inch diameter Tubes, numbe of 318 diameterof \H inches length of, over sheets, about 1 feet 8t inches Heating surface, tubes 5,896 square feet firebox square feet toal square feet Graearea 11 23 square feet style of Reagan, chopper Ash pan Plain Exhaust pipes Single Smoke tack above rail 11 feet Injectors Two Sellers Cla-s N. MISCELLANEOUS. Water capacity of tanks 700 gallons each Hea-llignt 16-inch Star Boiler covering Magnesia secional Safety valves 2. 2^-inch Crosby, side outlet Air-brakes Wt stinehouse Bell ring r Go


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