. The locomotive engineer . Manufacturing Company, with hisnsual promptness, secured this device for his firmjust as soon us it popped its head up. The blacksmith shop is a very large one, tbe roaddoing their own axle and other heavy work. Outside the roundhouse ne noticed a pressedwrought-iron boiler front. It had been taken offon account of difDcidty in keeping a tight joint atthe door. One engine in the house had au extremely widesteam chest, containing a new device for reducingfriction between the valve and seal. Al each endof the porte there was a rack of cut teeth set. Eachend of the val
. The locomotive engineer . Manufacturing Company, with hisnsual promptness, secured this device for his firmjust as soon us it popped its head up. The blacksmith shop is a very large one, tbe roaddoing their own axle and other heavy work. Outside the roundhouse ne noticed a pressedwrought-iron boiler front. It had been taken offon account of difDcidty in keeping a tight joint atthe door. One engine in the house had au extremely widesteam chest, containing a new device for reducingfriction between the valve and seal. Al each endof the porte there was a rack of cut teeth set. Eachend of the valve had an overbinging projection, onthe under side of which a corresponding rack wascut. Between these two, a toothed segment of awheel oscillated, carrying the valve slightly clearof the seat, without steam, When working ,the valve face just toucLea enough to make a engine, it is claimed, is doing good work, andhandle* easily, but it would seem that the plancalled for loo nice u job for locomotive work, and. .Vn Ulu-Timk Fly; the feed-pipe connections between engine andtank. This engine bad a gloss water gauge—oneof the first. As will be seen, steam cume direct from dome tosteam chests iu copper pipei, and the ccliausi waseoniructed to the stack under the boiler. The load ou the drivers could be varied bychanging the fulcrum pin bciwecii the equalizerand tbe frame. The extra notcbes are shown iuthe equalizer and frame through the driver. The Lightning was an exceptionally well-made machine, but had too small a boiler, aud wastoo light for much useful work. She made herfirst trip in December, 1H4I), uud remained inservice imly about a year. Her fastest record was10 milra and l^ feet iu 18 minutes and 21 seconds,hauling eight 8-whecIed cars, Saml Draper, en-gineer. ThiswasonFebruBr72, She was cutup at the Sebenccludy Locomotive Works in 16M. A neat little iKwk of outline drawings of fourela^^-^ of locomotives, with dimension liues forkeeping data of xizes
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