. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rivers, with a total weight of-engine andtender of pounds. This engine isstill in service; has the old steam chest,oil cups, two air pumps, and is used forwhitewashing and painting fences andbuildings by the air atomizing type of ancient locomotive is fastbecoming extinct, and should be preservedand used to adorn a pedestal in the UnionDepot or a public park, so that we mightstudy the evolution of locomotive build- tender truck, a pair of wheels, smoke-stack, front end or steam chest
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rivers, with a total weight of-engine andtender of pounds. This engine isstill in service; has the old steam chest,oil cups, two air pumps, and is used forwhitewashing and painting fences andbuildings by the air atomizing type of ancient locomotive is fastbecoming extinct, and should be preservedand used to adorn a pedestal in the UnionDepot or a public park, so that we mightstudy the evolution of locomotive build- tender truck, a pair of wheels, smoke-stack, front end or steam chest cover, orany other heavy casting, and carry it anyplace where we have a track. Locomotive Road Tests—How ShouldThey Be Made ? At the May meeting of the WesternRailway Club this was the subject of areport made by Prof. L. P. Breckenridge,of the University of Illinois, who has hadconsiderable experience in this line ofwork since 1887 on the Boston & AlbanyRailroad and other roads, the last beingon the Big Four. The tests made on the Big Four roadwere made and recorded in a dynamom-. around the train, and complete the trip in52 to 55 minutes. The principal feature of the engine thatis out of the ordinary is a double valve onone valve stem. This arrangement givesa very short steam port and but littleclearance. Most of the valves are set lineand line in the corner, and this givesthem about 7-32 inch in running notch. These engines were made by the Cen-tral Pacific Railroad at Sacramento, Cal.,under the supervision of A. J. Stevens,superintendent of motive power, and Luckett, general foreman, now mastermechanic of Salt Lake division. ODD LOCOMOTIVES ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC. ing. as the time will surely come when theoriginals will be more highly prized. Figs. 3 and 5 show exterior and interiorviews of the first of the engines with Stev-ens valve gear ever built. Fig. 2 shows our shop switch engine andtraveling crane combination, which isworth more to the company than its sizewo
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