. The railroad and engineering journal . troke, and the gauge was 4 feet Sj4 the driving and the truck wheels of this engine hadhollow oval spokes, and hollow rims with wrought-iron engine was run by Wm. E. Cooper until November, 1843,when it was sold to the Toledo & Adrian Railroad for $6,500,the original cost. It was said by Mr. Cooper that when theengine was sold it was considered to be one of the best work-ing engines in existence. An engine called the Experiment, was the next or thefourth locomotive turned out. It was made for the SouthCarolina Railroad, and was del
. The railroad and engineering journal . troke, and the gauge was 4 feet Sj4 the driving and the truck wheels of this engine hadhollow oval spokes, and hollow rims with wrought-iron engine was run by Wm. E. Cooper until November, 1843,when it was sold to the Toledo & Adrian Railroad for $6,500,the original cost. It was said by Mr. Cooper that when theengine was sold it was considered to be one of the best work-ing engines in existence. An engine called the Experiment, was the next or thefourth locomotive turned out. It was made for the SouthCarolina Railroad, and was delivered in June, 1838. Thisengine differed from those previously built at these works, inhaving a smaller cylinder and longer stroke than usual. The Sandusky was the type of the first four locomotivesbuilt by Messrs. Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor. In manyrespects they all resembled the Stephenson engines. Theyhad inside cylinders and a crank-axle, but differed from Eng-lish locomotives chiefly in having a truck instead of a pair of. leading wheels. The driving-axles were in front of the fire-boxes, with the result that the overhang of the latter behindthe axle brought an undue proportion of the weight of theengine on these axles. To remedy the evil of an excessive amount of weight on thedriving-axle, the latter was placed behind the fire-box in thefifth engine, called the Batavia, Fig. 14, built at theseworks. When this was done, however, there was too littleload on the driving-wheels, and an arrangement was providedfor transferring part of the weight of the tender to them. TheBatavia was built for the Tonawanda Railroad, and wascompleted in 1S3S. The shape of the furnace, in plan, wassemi-circular at the rear part, and it had a hemispherical topsurmounted with a dome. This form of fire-box was used aslate as 1857. In his early engines, besides using inside cylinders, also followed the plan which is still used in England,viz.; putting the cranks for parallel or coupling
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