. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . h— ALLIGATOR CROSSHEAD. LA/ftO CROSSHEADCrossheads for Three-Cylinder Locomotive Two types of crosshead are used. For the outside cylin-ders there is the ordinary alligator with two-bar the central cylinder, the Laird type with the three-barguide is used. Mr. Blunt, in the paper already referredto, gives as a reason for this that the best service hasresulted from the use of the three-bar type of crossheadhaving approximately a 50 per cent increase in bearingsurface over that used f
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . h— ALLIGATOR CROSSHEAD. LA/ftO CROSSHEADCrossheads for Three-Cylinder Locomotive Two types of crosshead are used. For the outside cylin-ders there is the ordinary alligator with two-bar the central cylinder, the Laird type with the three-barguide is used. Mr. Blunt, in the paper already referredto, gives as a reason for this that the best service hasresulted from the use of the three-bar type of crossheadhaving approximately a 50 per cent increase in bearingsurface over that used for either of the outside available clearance space readily permits of this in-crease and the desire to reduce maintenance to a minimumhas been fully substantiated by using this type of cross-head. Attention is called to the difference in the lengths of thebearing surfaces of the two types that of the Laird being22 in. while that of the alligator is but 10 in. According to Mr. Blunts paper a thorough analysisof the fiirccs obtaining in the three-cylinder application,together with the operating experience th
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