. Railroad digest . y pound of effective steampressure on the pistons is shown to be no more than Englishlocomotive superintendents get with engines 19 x 20 cylinders,with 7-foot coupled wheels. The front cab is very spacious and convenient, well lighted,and has a wind cutter or prow-shaped front: it is in com-munication with the back cab by means of speaking tubes andbell signals. It is designed to haul international expresstrains weighing ISO tons at a speed of 75 miles per hour, andwas built by Schneider et Cie. The Player Radial Truck Railway Master Mechanic, May, 1901, p. has hithe
. Railroad digest . y pound of effective steampressure on the pistons is shown to be no more than Englishlocomotive superintendents get with engines 19 x 20 cylinders,with 7-foot coupled wheels. The front cab is very spacious and convenient, well lighted,and has a wind cutter or prow-shaped front: it is in com-munication with the back cab by means of speaking tubes andbell signals. It is designed to haul international expresstrains weighing ISO tons at a speed of 75 miles per hour, andwas built by Schneider et Cie. The Player Radial Truck Railway Master Mechanic, May, 1901, p. has hitherto been customary in the design of four-coupledengines of the wide fire-box Atlantic type to use a pair oftrailing wheels, with journals in rigid pedestals, forged on tothe main frame, thus making the total rigid wheel base of alocomotive the distance from the center of the forward drivingaxle to the center of the trailing or carrying axle. This distanceon the majority of roads is limited to between 1-4 feet and IG. feet, and where large driving wheels are employed, necessarilymakes the distance from the center of the main axle to thecenter of the carrying axle uncomfortably short, thereby impos-ing a superfluity of weight upon the trailing axle and leavingan excessive overhang therefrom to the rear end of the engine,causing the rear end to sway considerably, especially inpassing through curves, and almost invariably causing
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