. American engineer and railroad journal . May, 1907 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 183:. FOUR-CYLINDER SIMPLE LOCOMOTIVE—LONDON AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY. FOUR-CYLINDER SIMPLE TEN WHEEL LOCOMOTIVE. London and Southwestern Chas. S. Lake, A. M. I. Mech. E. The London and Southwestern Railway has had in serviceduring the past 18 months, a class of four cylinder simple loco-motives of the ten-wheel type built from designs prepared byMr. D. Drummond, locomotive superintendent, which, in viewof the very general interest being taken in this type of power-ful, high speed locomotive
. American engineer and railroad journal . May, 1907 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 183:. FOUR-CYLINDER SIMPLE LOCOMOTIVE—LONDON AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY. FOUR-CYLINDER SIMPLE TEN WHEEL LOCOMOTIVE. London and Southwestern Chas. S. Lake, A. M. I. Mech. E. The London and Southwestern Railway has had in serviceduring the past 18 months, a class of four cylinder simple loco-motives of the ten-wheel type built from designs prepared byMr. D. Drummond, locomotive superintendent, which, in viewof the very general interest being taken in this type of power-ful, high speed locomotives, offer many points of interest. The four single-expansion cylinders are arranged as in thede-Glehn compounds, viz.: with one pair inside the frames, be-low the smokebox, driving the crank-axle of the leading pairof drivers, and the outside cylinders set back of the truck andconnecting to the middle drivers. The cylinders are all 16 x 24in. and two separate sets of valve gears are provided, the innerone being of the Stephenson type and the outer of theWalschaert. The driving wheels are 72 i
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