. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rewelded at the firebox end. The furnaceequipment includes an arch, supported onfive water tubes; and a Street mechanicalstoker is applied. The firedoor openinginca^i!re> 14x26 in>. and the Hnnr is gether with the crank-pins, connectingrods, and stub straps are made ofNtkrome steel. Walschaerts valve gear is used on 20of these locomotives and Baker gear onthe remaining ten. The Ragonnet powerreverse mechanism is applied. The valvesare set with a travel of 6 ins. and a leadof 5/16 in. Th
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rewelded at the firebox end. The furnaceequipment includes an arch, supported onfive water tubes; and a Street mechanicalstoker is applied. The firedoor openinginca^i!re> 14x26 in>. and the Hnnr is gether with the crank-pins, connectingrods, and stub straps are made ofNtkrome steel. Walschaerts valve gear is used on 20of these locomotives and Baker gear onthe remaining ten. The Ragonnet powerreverse mechanism is applied. The valvesare set with a travel of 6 ins. and a leadof 5/16 in. The steam lap is 1 3/16 the exhaust clearance /i in. The Class R-1 locomotives exert atractive force of 72,800 lbs., and burn amixture of fine anthracite and soft boilers are similar in many respectsto those of Class K-S, except that they arelonger and the fireboxes are considerablywider. The combustion chamber is 60 , and the tube length is 21 ft. Thegrate area is 100 sq. ft., and in considera-tion of the large size of the firebox it isinteresting to note that the seams are. \ss — (jo. FOR THE LEHIGH V.^ H. C. May, Supt. Motr Loco. Works, Builders. The Pacific type locomotives were spe-cially designed to handle fast freighttrains weighing about 2,0(K)-2,4(X) tons onthe low grade sections of the line, but theyare also fitted for heavy express passen-ger traffic, and are being used for suchwork on the Wyoming Division, wheregrades are heavy. In this respect theymay be compared to the Class J-55 Ten-wheeled locomotives which, for someyears, have been doing exceptionallygood work on this road. The Pacifiesare among the most powerful of theirtype, exerting a tractive force of 48,700lbs., or 55 per cent., in excess of the trac-tive force of Class J-55. They are spe-cially designed for burning bituminouscoal, and differ in this respect from thegreater part of the motive power on theLehigh Valley. The boilers of Class N-3, K-5, and R-1,a
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