. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e location of theheadlight is peculiar, the bracket beingbolted to the smoke-box door. The in-jectors are placed on the back head and heating surface of i to 65. The tubesare 301 in number, having an outsidodiameter of 2V4 ins. and each is 18 ft.(> ins. long. The tube heating sur-face is 3,265 sq. ft., leaving 206 sq. ftin the fire box. The staying of theBelpaire fire box is of course by 1 bolts. There are two rows ofsling stays at the front end of the firebox adjacent to the tub
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e location of theheadlight is peculiar, the bracket beingbolted to the smoke-box door. The in-jectors are placed on the back head and heating surface of i to 65. The tubesare 301 in number, having an outsidodiameter of 2V4 ins. and each is 18 ft.(> ins. long. The tube heating sur-face is 3,265 sq. ft., leaving 206 sq. ftin the fire box. The staying of theBelpaire fire box is of course by 1 bolts. There are two rows ofsling stays at the front end of the firebox adjacent to the tube sheet. The tender is made with a steelframe and is carried on two archbartrucks. The tank has a water bottomand altogether holds 8,000 U. S. gal-lons of water. The fuel space is pro-vided with a bulkhead front and bacic,and the coping is curved inward overthe coal space in order to prevent anyof the fuel falling off. The engineitself in working order weighs 209,000lbs. and with the tender the combinedweight amounts to about 360,000 of the principal dimensions aresubjoined for reference:. FAST FREIGHT 2-6 2 FOR THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY H Emerson. Supt. of Motive Power. Baldwin Locomotive Works, Builders. comotives with which it is hard tomake running time and which have to beforced rapidly into speed after frequentstoppages, will use nearly as much steamper horse power as the freight fact that a locomotive is using twicethe steam which ought to be requiredin order to do the work, is really noreflection upon the engine, but general-ly is the fault of overloading, a condi-tion that will deprive any class of steamengines of an economical record. 2-6-2 Type for the Great Northern. Fifty Prairie or 2-6-2 type locomo-tives, designed for freight service, haverecently been built by the Baldwin Lo-comotive Works for the Great NorthernRailway. The cylinders are single ex-pansion, 22x30 ins. with balanced slidevalves, and the valve motion is of theWalschaert
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