. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . NORTHERN* RAILWAY OF FRANCE COMrOUXD. since appeared, the boiler power alonehaving been progressively , with cylinders of precisely the samedimensions, the grate area has been in-creased by square feet, the fireboxheating surfaces by square feet, andthe tube heating surfaces by 702 squarefeet. The tubes remain the same length—12 feet 9 inches—as before: but, by rais-ing the axis of the boiler, larger barrelsare permissible, as well as deeper fire-boxes. In these new engines the boil
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . NORTHERN* RAILWAY OF FRANCE COMrOUXD. since appeared, the boiler power alonehaving been progressively , with cylinders of precisely the samedimensions, the grate area has been in-creased by square feet, the fireboxheating surfaces by square feet, andthe tube heating surfaces by 702 squarefeet. The tubes remain the same length—12 feet 9 inches—as before: but, by rais-ing the axis of the boiler, larger barrelsare permissible, as well as deeper fire-boxes. In these new engines the boilercenter is raised to 7 feet 11 inches, and theinside diameter of the smallest ring nextsmoke-box is increased to 5l)4 boiler pressure is now 201}^ pounds,instead of 182 pounds, and the maximumtractive effort has been consequentlyraised to tons, or, with boiler steamdirect to the low-pressure cylinders, ments being 3 feet 2*/i inches long by 4feet 7J/2 inches diameter, while a deeplyconcaved door has still further added toits effective capacity. Another alt
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