. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Moron. — A double-ender having three pairs of coupledwheels and a four-wheeled rear truck,built for the Spanish military engineers,Havana: Gage—4 feet 8>4 inches. Cylinders—12 inches diameter, 18 inchesstroke. West Sliore Air Hoists. Handling of work about a shop bymeans of air is nothing new at this day,but there are many new schemes comingto the surface in new applications of West Shore shops at Frankfort, N. Y.,have a very extensive installation of toolsof this character, there being no less
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Moron. — A double-ender having three pairs of coupledwheels and a four-wheeled rear truck,built for the Spanish military engineers,Havana: Gage—4 feet 8>4 inches. Cylinders—12 inches diameter, 18 inchesstroke. West Sliore Air Hoists. Handling of work about a shop bymeans of air is nothing new at this day,but there are many new schemes comingto the surface in new applications of West Shore shops at Frankfort, N. Y.,have a very extensive installation of toolsof this character, there being no less thantwenty-two hoists of all sizes in is one located between the largeplaner and radial drill, carried on a semi-circular track overhead, connecting bothtools, which for convenience, and there-fore a money-saver, can hardly be sur-passed. Car wheels and other materialsare loaded on cars in the quickest andeasiest manner, by running the wheels ora loaded truck, as the case may be, on aplatform which rests on a pair of air pis-tons placed below the track level. The. SOMETHING WAS NOT IN TO CLEAR. Driving wheels—38 inches diameter;journals,- 5 x 7^ inches. Total wheel base—19 feet S inches. Driving wheel base—8 feet i inch. Weight on drivers— pounds. Total weight— pounds. Boiler diameter—36 inches. Tubes—94 in number; 1^4 inches diam-eter, II feet long. Firebox—38}j inches long, 38I incheswide, 4654 inches deep. Truck wheels—24 inches diameter. Journals—3^ x 7 inches. Tank— gallons capacity, locatedover rear truck. The cab of this locomotive was armorclad with J^-inch steel plates on sides andfront, lined with ash. The doors andwindows were provided with J^-inchsteel shutters to slide over the glass panewhen required, the shutters being pro-vided with loopholes in center to allowof firing in case of attack. load is rolled on the platform and raisedby air pressure to the level of the car floorwith an expedition and ease
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