. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . now on Philadelphia & Reading used doublebars and fortified them with longspikes like elongated harrow stray bull was impaled on thisweapon shortly after it was intro-duced, and the use of a switching ropewas necessary to detach the form of bull catcher was at onceruled out of use, and the germ of themodern pilot soon appeared. The sleigh-like contrivance put on the John Bulldid not attain any popularity. The first three locomotives built by miles by the Delaware River to
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . now on Philadelphia & Reading used doublebars and fortified them with longspikes like elongated harrow stray bull was impaled on thisweapon shortly after it was intro-duced, and the use of a switching ropewas necessary to detach the form of bull catcher was at onceruled out of use, and the germ of themodern pilot soon appeared. The sleigh-like contrivance put on the John Bulldid not attain any popularity. The first three locomotives built by miles by the Delaware River to Phila-delphia. The trip which is now donein two hours was generally performedin two days and that was consideredwonderfully fast traveling. The opening of the Camden & AmboyRailroad greatly stimulated the traffic be-tween New York and Philadelphia, andthe railroad company had more thanenough to do in trying to provide powerand rolling stock to move the growingbusiness. The railroad had not been inoperation more than two years, when 492 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Xi)vinil)cr, ROBERT L. STEVENS. President Stevens and Superintendent of Machinery Dripps began consulting about the desirability of building more powerful locomotives than anything that had previously been thought of. THE MONSTER. The result of consul-tations was the design-ing of a class of loco-motives known as theMonsters. The firstof these engines waspartly built in Hoboken^the boiler in NewYork and the parts wereassembled in the com-panys shops at Borden-town in 1836. The origi-nal design of the enginecopied from shop draw-ings is illustrated in In 1885 Isaac Drippssent some tracings of drawings to theAmerican Railway Master MechanicsAssociation; and in a letter concerningthem he says: Plate No. i (Fig. 40)shows a boiler for burning anthracitecoal for 18x30 inch cylinder freight en-gine, built in New York in 1835 for theCamden & Amboy Railroad furnace of this boiler, at its fronte
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