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Identifier: americanengineer71newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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the engine being 121,800 pounds and in view of thesefigures the heating surface is seen to be large, viz. 1,950 squarefeet. The grate area is 20.8 square feet, which gives a ratio of72.7 to 1 between the heating surface and grate area. This ratio some of the details of the locomotive in a future issue. Thespecial attachments and their makers are given in the list ap-pended to the following table of dimensions : GENERAL. Gauge 4 feet 8i4 inches Kind of fuel to be owed Bituminous coil Wright on drivere 79.000 pounds truck wheels 42 800 poundB total 121.80H pounds • tender loaded...: 88,000 pounds Wheel base, total, of engine ... 23 feet s inches driving 8 feet 6 inches total (engine and tenderl 48 feet (i inches Length over all, engine 34 feet SW inches total, engine and tende.- 58 feet 1)4 inches Height, centre of boiler above rails 8 feet 7V£ inches of stack above rails 14 feet 11V6 iDches Heating surface, firebox 145 6 square feet tubes 1,804.1 square feet total 1 950 square feet
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Eight-Wheel Passenger Locomotive -Chiogo, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway.Built by the Bkooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, N. Y. compares very closely to that of the Big Four passen-ger locomotive of the same type which was illustrated in ourissue of January, 1896. The latter has 2,175 square feet of heat-ing surface and 30.75 square feet of grate area, a ratio of 70.07 to1, but these ratios appear small when contrasted with that of the10-wheeled compounds of the Northern Pacific, shown in ourJune number of the current volume, which is 81 to 1. The heat-ing surface of the design under review is large for an eight-wheel engine and gives a further indication of the tendencytoward increasing the heating surface to the largest limit pos-sible. In the construction of the boiler the fewest possible number ofsheets have been used, the taper sheet being the first course backof the smoke arch, and which brings the number of courses downto three. The wagon-top is large with this arrangement

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