. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . top radialstayed type and the barrel is built up oftwo courses, the outside diameter of thefirst course being 81^ ins. The tubes, ofwhich there arc 443. are 2 ins. in diameterand i.^ ft. 2 ins. long; and, as in the Pa-cific type engines, are placed so as to giveJi-in. bridges. The total heating surfaceof the boiler is SQ- ft- The fire boxis lo8!-6 ins. long and yoA ins. wide andprovides a grate area of sq. ft. Itis supported at both the front and backends by buckle plates. The rati
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . top radialstayed type and the barrel is built up oftwo courses, the outside diameter of thefirst course being 81^ ins. The tubes, ofwhich there arc 443. are 2 ins. in diameterand i.^ ft. 2 ins. long; and, as in the Pa-cific type engines, are placed so as to giveJi-in. bridges. The total heating surfaceof the boiler is SQ- ft- The fire boxis lo8!-6 ins. long and yoA ins. wide andprovides a grate area of sq. ft. Itis supported at both the front and backends by buckle plates. The ratios givenby the builders are here appended forreference: Weight on drivers -H tractive power = on drirers H- total weiKht fper cent.) = weight -^ tractive oower — power x diameter driving wheels -r- heating surface = surfoce -=- grate area — 7o-4-Firebox healing surface H- total heating ?>irface (per cent.» = 5-Volume of cylinders, cu. ft. = nals. diameter. 6 intender truck journalslength. 10 ins. .; length, li ins.:diameter. sV^ ins.;. I-IRE DOOR ON Boiler.—Type, straigh. .... ii/i ins.; fuel, bituminous coal. ^ Firebox.—I-ength. 108H ins.; width. ms.; thickness of crown, H m.; tube, V, in.; sides. M in.: back, H in.; water space, front ^y, ins.; sides, 4/4 ins.; back. 4/i n»- crown staying, radial. Recent Railway Accidents. The worlds press has loved so well toixpatiate upon the dangers of railwaytravel in America that a reliable accountshowing that serious railway accidentsare remarkably rare on this side of theAtlantic is something to make us feelproud. The Bureau of Railway News ofChicago appears to rival the InterstateCommerce Commission in the accuracy ofits records of railway accidents and ithas recently issued the statement that 340roads, operating over I53-O00 fl*s ofrailway, have kept their score clean. Tenother companies, operating 22,000 so unfortunate as to kill each asingle passen
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