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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv25newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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bove the grate. There were282 flues. The stack was 13 ins. in di-ameter and 14 ft. 6 ins. above the rails.Cylinders 10 by 20 ins. Wheels 35 ins. indiameter. The driving wheels weregeared to a larger gear wheel driving bya single piston. A fan blast was used inaiding combustion. The steam pressurewas 50 lbs., and the cost of the locomotivewas $4,500. The first double engines ap- gearing. Latterly a cab and tank were motives at attached to the crabs. After these this time curiosities came a new class, some of machinery which were furnished by William Norris road, and and others by Matthias W. Baldwin, structions These were furnished with horizontal boil- what may ers and swivel trucks. By and by the American four fixed eccentrics appeared, and also braced the Taunton, Mass., in 1853. AtHenry Tyson was master ofof the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-it was largely through his in- that Mason then introducedproperly be called the modernlocomotive. The designs em-telescope boiler, in place of the
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lL AM AND ELE( TRIC i. (MOTIVES AT WORK ON THE B. & O. the spark arrester. The reverse gear wasof the drop hook type, and presently theequalizer came simultaneously with the4-4-0 type of locomotive, and by 1840some approach to the modern type of lo-comotive began to appear. It was singular that after the horizon- old dome pattern, horizontal cylinderssecured to the frame, cylinder saddles, andan adaptation of the perfected shiftinglink motion. Meanwhile Ross Winans, an eminentengineer in the employ of the Baltimore& Ohio Company, had been experiment-

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  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • bookpublisher:New_York___A__Sinclair_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:319
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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