. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 6 ins. Weight—On drivingwheels, about. lbs.; ontruck, front, about, 39,000 lbs.; total engine, 145,-000 lbs.; total engine and tender, about, 245,000lbs. Tank—Capacity, . gals. drop the smattering of silly isms thatarc taught to common-school childrenand give them instruction in physics. Some railway officials have displayedmuch kindness towards suggestionsthat their repair shops should be madeof suflScient capacity to build all thenew cars and locomotives required bythe company.
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 6 ins. Weight—On drivingwheels, about. lbs.; ontruck, front, about, 39,000 lbs.; total engine, 145,-000 lbs.; total engine and tender, about, 245,000lbs. Tank—Capacity, . gals. drop the smattering of silly isms thatarc taught to common-school childrenand give them instruction in physics. Some railway officials have displayedmuch kindness towards suggestionsthat their repair shops should be madeof suflScient capacity to build all thenew cars and locomotives required bythe company. They are certain thatthe work could be done so cheaply thatmuch money would be saved to thecompanies interested. This brings toour recollection the remarks made bythe superintendent of motive power ofa great railroad who had been oc-casionally ordered to build new loco-motives. We always could show, re-marked this veteran, that we couldbuild the engines more cheaply than thecompany could buy them, but some-how the cost of repairs always roseconsiderably when new work was oc-cupying the BALDWIN SIMPLE TEN WHEEL ENGINE FOR THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE. duplicates of some engines which weresupplied on a previous order. The engines are simple, with Allen-Richardson balance valves. The cyl-inders are 19x26 ins. and the drivingwheels are 68 ins. in diameter. All thewheels are flanged and the drivingsprings are between and under theframe bars with the exception of theleading drivers which have their springson top of the box in the usual drivers are equally spaced, whichadds to the appearance of the motion is indirect, the transmissionbar passing below the first driving axleto a rocker arm. The boiler is a straight top one. andis 62 ins. in diameter at the front. Thegrate area is 28 sq. ft. and there is inall 2,336 sq. ft. of heating surface madeup of 162 in the fire box and 2,174 sq. Acquiring Useful Knowledge. The bicycle and now the automobilehave performe
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