. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . for the Camden & Am-boy Railroad with driving wheels 8 , illustrated and described onpage 544 of our 1903 volume. A fewothers noted for the large size of theirdriving wheels and the small capacity oftheir boilers were built, and provided ob-ject lessons that were not soon Stevens already mentioned wasthe first engine conspicuous for its greatsize of driving wheels. In 1849, the yearthat the Stevens was put to work, Ed-ward S. Norris, of the Schenectady Lo-comotive Wor
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . for the Camden & Am-boy Railroad with driving wheels 8 , illustrated and described onpage 544 of our 1903 volume. A fewothers noted for the large size of theirdriving wheels and the small capacity oftheir boilers were built, and provided ob-ject lessons that were not soon Stevens already mentioned wasthe first engine conspicuous for its greatsize of driving wheels. In 1849, the yearthat the Stevens was put to work, Ed-ward S. Norris, of the Schenectady Lo-comotive Works, built the Lightningfor the Utica & Schenectady Railroad,with a single pair of driving wheels 7 , cylinder 16x22 ins., boiler 42ins. diameter, with 116 2 in. tubes 10 in. long, providing about 670 sq. ft. ofheating surface. About one years serv- St mm ENGINE, BUILT ABOUT WiT, REBUILT IWO, BELONGED TO STONINGTOfT RAILROAD. JAMES M. ANDERSON, MASTER MECHANIC OK ROAD, IN FRONT. Photograph from which engraving was made loaned by Mr. Orman L- Pralt, Providence. R. 15x24 ins. and two pairs of coupled driv-ing wheels 7 ft. diameter. The Carrolln| Carrollton, made by Ross Winans in1852, had a single pair of drivingwheels7 ft. diameter, and had fourwheel trucks in front and rear. Winans tried to strengthen theweak point of previous singledriver engines, viz.: deficiency ofadhesion, by providing the Car-roll of Carrollton with a tractionincreaser shown in the engravingof the engine, but it did not se-cure success, for the engine neverdid any regular work. The Philadelphia & Reading,also the Hudson River Railroad,^^,j_ each had two locomotives builtby the Trenton LocomotiveWorks. Trenton, N. J., withsingle pair of driving wheels 7 which seemed to be thestandard size for that style in those were quite large enough (or the prevail-ing speed of trains. As late as 1864 theaverage speed of express trains in theUnited States was 32 miles an hour fora f
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