. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . exchangewith other collectors. Particularly interested in NewYork Central photographs. Address, HISTORICAL c/o Railvray and LoconkotHv riiilnaailag114 LibM-ty Stnet, New Yorii RlitSSLEWMNiK A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXXEX 136 Liberty Street, New York, February, 1926 No. 2 The McClellon Water Tube Boaer A Successful Development of the Water-Tube Boiler on theNew York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad For a number of years the Xew York, New Haven &Hartf
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . exchangewith other collectors. Particularly interested in NewYork Central photographs. Address, HISTORICAL c/o Railvray and LoconkotHv riiilnaailag114 LibM-ty Stnet, New Yorii RlitSSLEWMNiK A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXXEX 136 Liberty Street, New York, February, 1926 No. 2 The McClellon Water Tube Boaer A Successful Development of the Water-Tube Boiler on theNew York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad For a number of years the Xew York, New Haven &Hartford Railroad have had a locumotive in experimentalservice, that was equipped with the McClellon \Vater-tubeboiler. As happens in such cases the original design de-veloped some weaknesses in the details of its construction; of boiler to be used but the McClelluii water tube i)oiIerwas ordered to be placed in each of them. The McClellon lioiler was originally designed by thelate James M. McClellon of Everett, Mass., who died justas the boiler had deiiKinstrated its efficiencv. and it is the. The McClellon Water Tube Boiler Now m Service on the New York. New Haven & Haitford Railroad •lit, at the same time, shdwcd that its fundamental prin- iples were mechanically sound, and that with a modifica-tion of the details that were giving trouble, the boilerwould jtrobably give .satisfactory service. These changeswere made and emboflierl in a new Ixiilcr that was builtand installed in a mouiUain t\|)e (4-8-2; locomotive. Thisengine was pnt into regular freight service and subjectedlo extensive rtjad tests in comparison with a similar enginehaving a radially stayed boiler. The results of this serv-ice anrl the tests were so satisfactory and so conclusivelvdemonstrated the advantage of the McClellon boiler that,when ten new engines were recently jnirchased for theroad, there was no question or discussion as to (he tyi»e property of the JMcClellon Locomotive Boiler Co. of Bos-ton, Mass.
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