Canadian transportation & distribution management . sting tariffs in force in Canada inrespect to the carriage of live stock asaforesaid. , 356 July, 1921. Locomotive Booster Tests on Timiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway. Locomotive booster tests on the T. & Ry. were described in a generalway in Canadian Railway and MarineWorld for June. Since then, the resultsof the tests have been checked over andcharts prepared, and the most importanttests can now be dealt with more fullyand the results shown graphically. Acomplete illustrated description of theboosters mechanical features was pub-lis
Canadian transportation & distribution management . sting tariffs in force in Canada inrespect to the carriage of live stock asaforesaid. , 356 July, 1921. Locomotive Booster Tests on Timiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway. Locomotive booster tests on the T. & Ry. were described in a generalway in Canadian Railway and MarineWorld for June. Since then, the resultsof the tests have been checked over andcharts prepared, and the most importanttests can now be dealt with more fullyand the results shown graphically. Acomplete illustrated description of theboosters mechanical features was pub-lished in Canadian Railway and Marine the latest specialties and refinements ap-plied to locomotives. The tests were conducted with Cana-dian National Rys. dynamometer car 84,the use of which was extended to theT. & for the occasion. The firsttest was made on May 9, with mikadolocomotive 150, which was given a trainout of North Bay consisting of 21 load-ed freight cars, the dynamometer car,T. & official cars Temagami and. Fig-. 1. Booster Test, with Mikado Locomotive 150, showing speed and drawbar pull. Left side, from mile to mile , on grade. Dotted line, with booster cut in; full line,without booster cut in. Right side, between miles 15 and 18. showing effect of cutting in booster. World for Dec. 1920, pg. 661. As statedpreviously, boosters have been appliedon one mikado and four Pacific type lo-comotives on the T. & Ry. Themikado to which the booster is appliedwas described and illustrated in Cana-dian Railway and Marine World for May,pg. 252. This locomotive has a tractivepower of 45,500 lb, without booster,weight on drivers 197,000 lb., cylinders25 x 30 in., and is thoroughly modern indesign. Details and an illustration of Whitney, and a caboose. The actual ton-nage of this train was 1,401 tons, 756contents and 645 tare, the adjusted ton-nage with the T. & allowance be-ing 1,501. Fig. 1, given herewith, showsthe performance of the locom
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