. American engineer and railroad journal . SECTIONS OF MOGUL TYPE PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE WITH SUPERHEATER—SWISS GOVERNMENT RAILROAD. SIMPLE LOCOMOTIVE FITTED WITH IMPROVEDSMOKE TUBE SUPERHEATER. Swiss Government Railroad. By Wilhelm Schmidt. Generally speaking, mogul locomotives are still in considerablefavor in Europe, where the demand for larger and heavier en-gines has not been of that urgent and persistent character whichhas been so marked a feature in the case of America. This ismainly due to the fact that highly superheated steam has forsome years been extensively employed on the European
. American engineer and railroad journal . SECTIONS OF MOGUL TYPE PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE WITH SUPERHEATER—SWISS GOVERNMENT RAILROAD. SIMPLE LOCOMOTIVE FITTED WITH IMPROVEDSMOKE TUBE SUPERHEATER. Swiss Government Railroad. By Wilhelm Schmidt. Generally speaking, mogul locomotives are still in considerablefavor in Europe, where the demand for larger and heavier en-gines has not been of that urgent and persistent character whichhas been so marked a feature in the case of America. This ismainly due to the fact that highly superheated steam has forsome years been extensively employed on the European Conti-nent, as a result of which it has been possible to adequately in-crease the power of new locomotives without augmenting thetotal weight to an undesirable degree. The engine shown inthe accompanying engraving is especially interesting for thereason that it is provided with the latest improved smoke-tubetype of superheaters, a type which is as steadily increasing inpopularity in Switzerland as it is elsewhere. Apart from thesuperhea
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