. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . about pounds. The boiler is $&/& inches indiameter at the smallest ring. There are282 2-inch tubes 12 feet i inch long. Thereare square feet of heating surfacein the firebox. in the tubes, a totalof square feet. The grate area square feet. This will be found tobe a much more liberal heating surfacethan what European locomotives of smallcylinder capacity are usually provided Fig. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Symons Boltless Cast Steel Truck. The tendency of late years has b
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . about pounds. The boiler is $&/& inches indiameter at the smallest ring. There are282 2-inch tubes 12 feet i inch long. Thereare square feet of heating surfacein the firebox. in the tubes, a totalof square feet. The grate area square feet. This will be found tobe a much more liberal heating surfacethan what European locomotives of smallcylinder capacity are usually provided Fig. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING Symons Boltless Cast Steel Truck. The tendency of late years has been to-wards simplicity of form in the designingof railroad machinery. Much attention isbeing devoted to making the number ofparts as few as possible, a practice whichworks very well in keeping down the costof repairs. If there is any part about acar which ought to be made as simple aspossible it is the truck, but in many in-stances it has not received the care fromthe designer that its importance the superintendents of motivepower who are properly impressed with. \V. E. SVMONS C.\ST STEEL TRUCK. with. The firebox is of copper, 88r4mches long, 43J4 inches wide and a meandepth of 65 inches. The journals of thedriving axles are 8 x 10 inches and of theengine truck wheels 6 x 10. The drivingwheel base is 8 feet, and the total 23 feet6 inches. The wheel base of engine andtender is 48 feet 714 inches. The totalweight of the engine is 117,985 pounds, ofwhich 69,760 pounds are on the driversand 48,225 pounds on the truck. The en-gines are unusually well finished, althoughthey will look plain beside the decoratedlocomotivds of continental Europe. the advantages of simplicity in car trucksMr. W. E. Symons, of the Plant system,holds a conspicuous place. The repairyard has long been one of his favorite lin-gering places, and there he was alwaysabsorbing object lessons about lines ofweakness that tend to send cars to therepair yard before their time. The inspiraton of this e
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