. Official proceedings . due to the more uniformdistribution of weight, thus greatly contributing to the increase inpower of the American locomotive. Among the locomotives built by Eastwick and Harrison, the 92 most famous were the Gowan and Marx for the Philadelphia &Reading Railroad, and the Mercury (Fig. 6) for the Baltimore& Ohio. The Gowan and Marx had a 5 ft. firebox, 2 tubes,5ft. long, and developed remarkable tractive qualities; it hauledfrom Reading to Philadelphia a train of 104 four-wheel loadedcars at an average speed of about 10 miles per hour. This trainweighed 423 tons, or 40 ti
. Official proceedings . due to the more uniformdistribution of weight, thus greatly contributing to the increase inpower of the American locomotive. Among the locomotives built by Eastwick and Harrison, the 92 most famous were the Gowan and Marx for the Philadelphia &Reading Railroad, and the Mercury (Fig. 6) for the Baltimore& Ohio. The Gowan and Marx had a 5 ft. firebox, 2 tubes,5ft. long, and developed remarkable tractive qualities; it hauledfrom Reading to Philadelphia a train of 104 four-wheel loadedcars at an average speed of about 10 miles per hour. This trainweighed 423 tons, or 40 times the weight of the locomotive. TheAlercury had, for the first time, a single link spring in theleading truck and was famous for its speeds, pulling trains up toa mile a minute. In the first year of its service (1843), the loco-motive covered an unprecedented mileage of 37,000 miles. By that time the standard design of locomotives comprisedthe horizontal boiler, horizontal cvlinders and direct drive to Fig. 6—B. & O. Mercury. The Baltimore & Ohio, however, persisted in continuing theirpeculiar designs, and having given up the vertical boiler and ver-tical cylinder features, stuck nevertheless, to the indirect drivewith a jack shaft. Ross Winans built in 1844 a heavy eight-coupled locomotive, the Buffalo, with horizontal cylinders drivinga jack shaft placed above the rear coupled axle and geared to their predecessors, the grasshoppers and crabs, these loco-motives, a number of which was built between 1844 and 1846, werenicknamed mud diggers for the reason that they pounded upvery much dust from the light track. However, this type was soonabandoned in favor of the conventional eight-coupled locomotiveAvith horizontal cylinders and direct drive—the ordinary 0-8-0 peculiarity, however, was still retained by the Company inI^roviding their engines with cabs placed on the top of boiler, into 93 whicli the engine driver liad to climb on the side of a slope
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