. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ake Erie andthe Ohio River. The route was followedby the French voyageurs in their trad-ing intercourse between Canada andLouisiana. The route of the line was distinctlyspecified and it was provided that thestate should have the right to purchasethe road after forty years from the timefixed for completion of the work. Thiswas never done. The work of construc-tion was pushed rapidly and the com-pany was fairly prosperous until exten-sions were undertaken which ~ led tofinancial complications.
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ake Erie andthe Ohio River. The route was followedby the French voyageurs in their trad-ing intercourse between Canada andLouisiana. The route of the line was distinctlyspecified and it was provided that thestate should have the right to purchasethe road after forty years from the timefixed for completion of the work. Thiswas never done. The work of construc-tion was pushed rapidly and the com-pany was fairly prosperous until exten-sions were undertaken which ~ led tofinancial complications. The road is nowpart of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi-cago & St. Louis Railway. ROGERS IMPROVES THE LOCOMOTIVE. The first four engines built by Rogersclosely resembled the Sandusky, but thefifth one, turned out in 1839, the Ba-tavia, Fig. 48, had a Bury hemisphericaltop boiler, the driving wheels were lo-cated behind it and the rocker shaftswere near the middle of the frame, butstill actuated by eccentrics secured onthe outer ends of the driving axle. Withthe driving wheels behind the fire box. SANDUSKY. FIG. 47. take no refusal, and being a very per-sistent man he concluded by shipping theengine by canal and lake to laying had not begun when theengine reached its destination, so theybuilt the road to suit its gauge, which it was discovered that this engine wasdeficient in adhesion and was given toexcessive slipping. To remedy this de-fect an arrangement was provided fortransferring part of the weight of thetender upon the drivers. January, 1904. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING TRACTION INCREASERS. Traction increasers to peiform tlicsame functions as that invented by Rog-ers were applied to a considerable extentby the early locomotive builders. En-
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