Railway and Locomotive Engineering . the work is assured. 296 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING November, 1921 Result of Application of Locomotive Booster to Locomo-tive of Temiskaming and Northern Railway The Booster in Operation It is interesting to observe that theCanadian railway executives have notbeen slow in appreciating the intro-duction of the Locomotive Booster, themerits of which were pointed out inour pages, culminating in a full de-scription of the extensive tests made onthe New York Central Lines last that time numerous applicationsof the important appliance has been
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . the work is assured. 296 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING November, 1921 Result of Application of Locomotive Booster to Locomo-tive of Temiskaming and Northern Railway The Booster in Operation It is interesting to observe that theCanadian railway executives have notbeen slow in appreciating the intro-duction of the Locomotive Booster, themerits of which were pointed out inour pages, culminating in a full de-scription of the extensive tests made onthe New York Central Lines last that time numerous applicationsof the important appliance has been truck support. Control valves are air-operated, designed and manufactured bythe Westinghouse Air Brake Company. Utilizing spare steam from the locomo-tive boiler the booster turns otherwise idletrailing wheels into driving wheels, the starting power of a loco-motive and helping it over steep but 3,500 pounds, the boosteradds 25% to 40% to the draw-bar pull, anincrease equivalent to that which could. THE BOOSTER APPLIED TO THE TRUCK OF .\ LOCOMOTIVE made, and all with gratifying resultsin point of economy. Among the mostrecent is an application and specialtests of a booster-equipped locomotiveon the Temiskaming and NorthernRailway of Canada. Extension of the T. & N. O. and anincrease in passenger and freight trans-portation imposed demands that could notbe met satisfactorily with present of existing rail and difficulty ofmaintaining roadbed in a country whereit is almost impossible to make track re-pairs during six or seven months of theyear mitigated against the use of heavierengines. After a careful study of the new deviceand its possibilities, the T. & N. O. ap-plied boosters to four new light Pacifiesand one Mikado. The results are indica-tive of what may be expected from thebooster as a factor in meeting conditionssuch as confronted the T. & N. O. Thebooster-equipped Pacifies are now haulingthirteen steel cars over a 1
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