. American engineer and railroad journal . M ■^ 1—^ _n_ Jill . ( V 111 UJ HOOK JACK, DELAWARE & HUDSON CANAL CO. Furthermore, C! steel, in having a tensile strength of atleast three limes that of cast iron, can lie very advantageouslyused instead of the latter, when strength of construction isdesired and when the question of weight enters into the con-sideration. In locomotive work cast steel has been very extensively u^edfor the past few years by English railway companies. Thefollowing is a list of the principal parts of the locomotivewhich have been made of cast steel by our English cous
. American engineer and railroad journal . M ■^ 1—^ _n_ Jill . ( V 111 UJ HOOK JACK, DELAWARE & HUDSON CANAL CO. Furthermore, C! steel, in having a tensile strength of atleast three limes that of cast iron, can lie very advantageouslyused instead of the latter, when strength of construction isdesired and when the question of weight enters into the con-sideration. In locomotive work cast steel has been very extensively u^edfor the past few years by English railway companies. Thefollowing is a list of the principal parts of the locomotivewhich have been made of cast steel by our English cousins,and which were formerly made eilher of cast iron, wroughtiron, steel forgings or stamped work : Guide brackets, variousstays, horn plates or pedestal guides as we call them, dome Eql 2. PARTS MADE OFJ CAST .STEEL USED ON ENGLISH LOCOMOTIVES. Vol. LXVII, No. 8.] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 383 covers aud even domes complete, muil rings and flredoorrings, crown-bars, tanks, valve cases, pistonliead, slides forthe .Joj- valve-motion, brake delails, suspension rods, hingesfor smoke-box doors, reversing wheels, various levers andhandles, finall}, and above all. truck and driving-wheels andin all about 4(1 dillerent parts. One repntable house has even made axles of cast steel. Oneof them was put upon an engine of the North British Railwayin 1881, and up to Ajtril, 189^, had run 316,900 miles wilhontshowing any sign of defects. This is only cited as an isolatedcase, for it would not lie right to consider it as showing evena tendency in that direction, for no engineer would dare torecommend cast steel for the manufacture of such importantparts. Furthermore, this melal often has a surface which wasfar from being smooth enough, and its coefficient of friction isquite high, which alo
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