. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uarefeet. The wheel base of this engine is 32feet 4 ins., of engine and tender, 59 feet 6inches, the total length of engine andtender ^2 feet. The tender carriesthirteen tons of coal and 6,200 gal-lons of water. Total weight of en-gine and tender is 242,000 pounds,and including coal and water 320,-000 pounds. These engines are of the new cases it is passed through a screen orstrainer before falling into the water; inothers it falls on to a stream of water,which is forced through a nozzle; but
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uarefeet. The wheel base of this engine is 32feet 4 ins., of engine and tender, 59 feet 6inches, the total length of engine andtender ^2 feet. The tender carriesthirteen tons of coal and 6,200 gal-lons of water. Total weight of en-gine and tender is 242,000 pounds,and including coal and water 320,-000 pounds. These engines are of the new cases it is passed through a screen orstrainer before falling into the water; inothers it falls on to a stream of water,which is forced through a nozzle; butas there is no material advantage eitherway, the direct pouring is conmionly em-ployed. On falling into the water the metal issplit up into little globules, which sinkto the bottom. Then the tank is emptiedand the solder, before it is ready for use,gets a thorough good washing to free itfrom oxide. The Baldwin Locomotive WorksRecord of Recent Construction, No. 44,has just been issued. It contains somemodern examples of the Atlantic, or4-4-2 type of fast passenger power,both simple and compound. An. CHICAGO, .ST. PAUL. MINNEAPOLIS & OMAHA i-i-l EXPRESS ENGINE. body is seated before they realize it; thatswhere I cut out delays. It goes without saying Modoc wasrequested to change his ways or changehis job. He is to-day one of the best men onhandling air, on a road where the averageperformance is first class. 4-6-2 type and are capable of maintaininga high rate of speed. They were especiallydesigned for getting up speed quickly inleaving stations. The total weight of theNorth-Western Limited Chicago train,pulled by these engines, not including en-gine is 410 tons. Fast Passenger 4-6-2 for the C, , M. & O. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &Omaha Railway, of which Mr. J. J. Ellisis superintendent of motive power, hasrecently received from the Schenectadyshops of the American Locomotive Com-pany some 4-6-2 passenger engines. Ourillustration shows No. 372 as she stands,with stea
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