. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . A GOOD TEAM. The consolidation engine weighs pounds, of which 136,000 pounds areon the drivers. The cylinders are 19 x 30inches; the driving wheels 55 inches diam-eter, and the boiler has a total heatingsurface of 2,162 square feet, and the gratearea is square feet. The workingboiler pressure is 200 pounds per squareinch. Under the Railway Master Me-chanics rule of 8s per cent, boiler pres-sure as the mean effective cylinder pres-sure at low speeds, this would give the Locomotive Drawings i
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . A GOOD TEAM. The consolidation engine weighs pounds, of which 136,000 pounds areon the drivers. The cylinders are 19 x 30inches; the driving wheels 55 inches diam-eter, and the boiler has a total heatingsurface of 2,162 square feet, and the gratearea is square feet. The workingboiler pressure is 200 pounds per squareinch. Under the Railway Master Me-chanics rule of 8s per cent, boiler pres-sure as the mean effective cylinder pres-sure at low speeds, this would give the Locomotive Drawings in The complete drawings of locomotivesand other machinery that we see to-day,and which are necessary in modern loco-motive building, are in marked contrastwith some of the methods in vogue in theearlier days. In 1831, after Phineas Davis, the watch-maker, of York, Pa., had earned the$4,000 prize offered by the Baltimore &Ohio for the best locomotive (theYork), he went to work to improve it. gages from 231/2 inches to 5 feet andseveral distinct types of locomotive. Theengines
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