. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . while its accessi-bility has been obtained by carefully avoid-ing covering up the machinery by sheet-iron covers, running plates, etc. The re-sults of this latter are, perhaps, not so pleas-ing to the eye as the smooth, unbrokenlines presented by a typical English engine,but after all, being accustomed to a thinghas a good deal to do with ones ideas ofits beauty, although it should be borne inmind that there are certain fundamental a six-wheeled tender should have its springgear similarly arranged, altho
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . while its accessi-bility has been obtained by carefully avoid-ing covering up the machinery by sheet-iron covers, running plates, etc. The re-sults of this latter are, perhaps, not so pleas-ing to the eye as the smooth, unbrokenlines presented by a typical English engine,but after all, being accustomed to a thinghas a good deal to do with ones ideas ofits beauty, although it should be borne inmind that there are certain fundamental a six-wheeled tender should have its springgear similarly arranged, although it shouldbe said that the tenders referred to aboveas running on a couple of Eastern roads,are giving good satisfaction without thecross equalizers, but it should also be saidthat the roadway in these cases is consid-erably above the average. Fig. 15 shows a tender so equalized, re-cently built at the Rogers LocomotiveWorks, for a road in the Argentine Re-public. It will be noticed that with thisconstruction the weight is distributed invirtually the same way as it is with an ordi-. MS*- ^^J rules governing machine design that can-not be ignored with impunity, if a grace-ful appearance is to be attained. Inquiry has brought out the fact that inAustralia, where the physical character-istics of the railroads approximate quiteclosely to the average of our own, therehas been considerable trouble -with thesix-wheeled English-built tenders leavingthe track, due to their want of flexibility,each of the three pairs of wheels being en-tirely separated from the others. A sagin the rail, or a low joint, causes the tenderto pitch to an extent that not infrequentlycauses a derailment. The introduction ofside equalizers between the middle andback springs has considerably- reduced thistrouble. It is tolerably evident, then, thatif we are to use six-wheeled tenders onroads where the surfacing and lining-upare not maintained at a high standard, wemust employ equalizers, just as we havefound
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