. Railroad digest . d American design of ex-press locomotives is towards an increase in weight and size,au increase in heating surface and of steam pressure, the useof compound instead of single expansion and of coupled wheelsin place of single drivers. In the latest American practice verywide fire-boxes are being rapidly introduced, this being themost marked change in recent construction. It may be of interest to note one or two designs of expresslocomotives now in use on French, English and German rail-ways. The illustration. Fig. 1, shows a four-cylinder, four-coupled, compound locomotive f
. Railroad digest . d American design of ex-press locomotives is towards an increase in weight and size,au increase in heating surface and of steam pressure, the useof compound instead of single expansion and of coupled wheelsin place of single drivers. In the latest American practice verywide fire-boxes are being rapidly introduced, this being themost marked change in recent construction. It may be of interest to note one or two designs of expresslocomotives now in use on French, English and German rail-ways. The illustration. Fig. 1, shows a four-cylinder, four-coupled, compound locomotive for express service in Francedesigned and built under the direction of M. du of the Chemin De Fer Du Nord. The en-gine is built on the lines of the De Glehn compound system bythe Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Jlechaniques at Bel-fort. The speed of passenger locomotives is regulated by thegovernments, abroad, to a much greater extent than in thisIhich is practically without
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