. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ading driving axle. Theframes are of cast steel, with double front of I-section sleel and the crosshead isof the two-guide-bar type. The pistonrod is secured in the crosshead by meansof collar and nut. The boiler is of the straight top typewith sloping throat sheet and back measures 66 ins. at the smoke box endand the barrel is supported by the guidebearer sheets and two intermediate waistsheets. The fire box is carried at eachend on buckle plates bolted to cross injectors a
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ading driving axle. Theframes are of cast steel, with double front of I-section sleel and the crosshead isof the two-guide-bar type. The pistonrod is secured in the crosshead by meansof collar and nut. The boiler is of the straight top typewith sloping throat sheet and back measures 66 ins. at the smoke box endand the barrel is supported by the guidebearer sheets and two intermediate waistsheets. The fire box is carried at eachend on buckle plates bolted to cross injectors are located on the rightside, and feed through a double checkvalve placed on the top of the boiler atthe front end. In the matter of heatingsurface the boiler is liberally tubes give 3,188 sq. ft. themselves,as there are 280 of them each 19 ft. 5 The fire box gives 169/$ sq. ft,thus making a total of sq. ft ofheating surface in the boiler. This samearea would about be enclosed in a circle65 ft 4 ins. in diameter. The grate areais sq. ft., and this gives a ratio of. F. F. Gaines, Supt. of Motive Power. to overlap each other in closed position toprovide a floor or bottom for the ashpan,the endmost plates being adapted to en-gage the stop-shoulders on the front andrear walls of the ashbox. A crank-armactuates the rockers and the bottom of theashpan can be readily opened or closed. BOILER TUBE CLEANER. Mr. E. Mettler, Indianapolis, Ind., hasinvented a very ingenious boiler tubecleaner and secured a patent 836,267. The cleaner is furnishedwith a rotatable head having radial slots,each slot having opposed guiding sur-faces, an arm arranged in each slot withtrunnions bearing on the guiding sur-faces. Cutters are carried by each arm,the head being divided into two separableparts in a plane transverse to its axisof rotation. The teeth of the cutters arestaggered and are readily removable. PASSENGER 4-6-2 FOR THE CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY. B
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