. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . made was taken in l866. Master MechanicSweet is standing at the steam chest; En-gineer Thomas Kent is in the end of the baggage car shows thespring hood used in those days to keepcinders and smoke off the platforms. Her engineer, Thomas Kent, whosepleasant face is shown in a separate pic- ing 1, feet makes a total heatingsurface of 1, The Master MechanicsAssociation type of front end draft ap-pliances is used, and this engine is a veryfine steamer. Her tender carries 3,500 gallons o
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . made was taken in l866. Master MechanicSweet is standing at the steam chest; En-gineer Thomas Kent is in the end of the baggage car shows thespring hood used in those days to keepcinders and smoke off the platforms. Her engineer, Thomas Kent, whosepleasant face is shown in a separate pic- ing 1, feet makes a total heatingsurface of 1, The Master MechanicsAssociation type of front end draft ap-pliances is used, and this engine is a veryfine steamer. Her tender carries 3,500 gallons of water and seven tons of coal. This engine was built at the Jacksonshops, and embodies the best points of thesuccessful engines on the Michigan Cen-tral Railroad, which are called on for veryhard service on heavy trains, and notfound wanting in speed and power. The Fitchburg Railroad Company havedetermined to install a huge electrically-operated fan in a shaft of the Hoosactunnel for the purpose of drawing outthe smoke and gas which make travelingthrough the tunnel so disagreeable Al-. THE PERSIAN, A UETROIT-BUILT zYi inches in diameter, 160 in was said to be a very fine steam pressure carried, somewherenear 130 pounds, would be considered lowii. these days. The engine truck framewas of boiler plate, suspended below thetruck boxes, called a Sweet truck. Theside springs can be seen in the cut. As usual in those days, lots of brass wasused for ornament, which had to be keptpolished like a mirror, and the whistlebeing located up ahead would throw waterall over the dome at times. This class ofengine weighed 62,630 pounds, and is veryaptly described by an engineer who ranone of them. He said: They were smarta3 a steel trap; were built upon honor,could run like lightning, pull a full trainup a hill, and they rarely ever broke downon the road. The Persians tenderheld 2,200 gallons of water, and three and ture, entered the service of the companyin A
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