. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the weight half-way between the center of the axle andthe tread of the tire. The Master Me-chanics rule for calculating the weight of Chicago & Eastern Illinois Twelve-Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Locomotive Works ap-pear to be taking a leading part in thebuilding of locomotives whose great weightcomes nearly up to the capacity of a 4-foot8K-inch gage. One of the latest of theirproducts is shown in the accompanying en-gravings, on pages 527 and 528. This is a tremendously heavy twelve-wheel compound locomotiv
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the weight half-way between the center of the axle andthe tread of the tire. The Master Me-chanics rule for calculating the weight of Chicago & Eastern Illinois Twelve-Wheeler. The Pittsburgh Locomotive Works ap-pear to be taking a leading part in thebuilding of locomotives whose great weightcomes nearly up to the capacity of a 4-foot8K-inch gage. One of the latest of theirproducts is shown in the accompanying en-gravings, on pages 527 and 528. This is a tremendously heavy twelve-wheel compound locomotive, weighing inworking order 189,700 pounds. This isnot so much weight as some of the loco-motives of the consolidation type turnedout by the Pittsburgh Locomotive Workshave been, but we presume that the road-bed and track of the Chicago & EasternIllinois have influenced the weight to becarried on the driving wheels. The en-gine truck carries 39,700 pounds. The ad-ditional weight that the cylinders of acompound locomotive put upon the frontend probably accounts for a four-wheel. Locomotive Emjineering PITTSBURGH TWELVE-WHEELER FOR CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS. Telpherage. Telpherage is a new word to many andwas invented by Professor Fleeming Jen-kin, who defines it as the Transmissionof vehicles by electricity to a distance in-dependently of control from the old way was to send a wagon ortruck with one or two men from the worksat irregular intervals for the castings, pat-terns or other material to be moved. Nowas soon as the castings or other materialare ready, they are placed upon the telphercar, the circuit is completed and the carwith its load starts towards the factory,slowly at first and then increases in speeduntil it approaches a curve where it auto-matically slows down. After passing thecurve, speed is again increased until theend of the line is neared, when it auto-matically reduces speed and comes to agradual stop. The works end of the lineis so arranged that
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