Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1924) (14778421793)

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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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e designed andbuilt by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the electrical parts bythe Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company andthe locomotives were assembled at the Juniata shop of therailroad company. The first locomotive, known as the L-S, was placed infreight pusher service in February of this year, on the11.000-volt alternating current section between Overbrook I lie locomotives are of the side rod type. Each loco-motive is equipped with four Westinghouse type 418single-phase commutator motors. Two of these motorsare geared to a jackshaft, which is connected to two pairsof drivers through the side rods. The two center driversare flangeless. The frame is composed of four main steel castings ac-curately machined and substantially bolted together toform a continuous framework extending the full lengthof the locomotive. Each end of this frame is formed intoa cradle containing the jackshaft and motors, suitablehearing seats for both motors and jackshaft being pro-vided in the frame.
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Pennsylvania Railroads Class L-5 Electric Locomotive—Built at Aitoona Shops of the Railroad Company and Paoli, Pa. A second, equipped for passenger serviceat 650 volts direct current, and known as the L-5-A hasjust been completed. The principal dimensions and weights of these locomo-tives being as follows: A-C.LocomotivesLength, between pulling faces of coupler knuckles 68 ft. 21 _> in. Total wheel base 54 ft. 11 in. Rigid wheel base 22 ft. 3 in. Height over pantagraph in locked down position 15 ft. 6 in. Width overall 10 ft. 1 in. Length of cab 26 ft. 0 in. Length of hood 16 ft. 9^4 in. Diameter of driving wheels 80 in. Diameter of guiding wheels 33 in. Weight, total 408,600 lb. Weight on drivers 308,600 lb. Weight on guiding wheels 100,000 lb. 173 Lubrication of motor and jackshaft bearings is ob-tained by an oil circulation system. Under each jack-shaft, cast integrally in the main frame, is an oil reservoirholding an adequate supply of oil. Geared to the jack-shaft is a plung