Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1906) (14572796867)

Identifier: railwaylocomotiv19newy (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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furnished with very broad andample bearings. A copy of this recordof cojistruction may be obtained bywriting for one direct to the BaldwinWorks. Record of recent Construction. No.59, has been issued from the BaldwinLocomotive Works containing valu-able information pertaining to a greatvariety of locomotives, accompanied Superheaters in Prussia. The Department of Public Works inPrussia has called the attention of theseveral railways to certain defectswhich have appeared in the locomotivesfurnished with superheaters, and hassuggested means to remedy the de-fects. It has been found that in thesteam boxes of the Schmidt super-heater the projecting ends of the steamtubes rust easily and rapidly weaken,with the result that the crown plates ofthe superheating chamber become dis-torted and leak. Drainage channelshave been tried with valves openinginto the steam box, and these valvesopen automatically by the action ofspiral springs when the steam pressureis shut off. The effect of the drainage
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N. Y. C. SUB-STATION NO. 3, SHOWING POLE AND OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION I Courtesy of Street Railway Journal) with illustrations beautifully executedon cream finished paper. The locomo-tives are presented without special ar-rangement and mainly in the order ofconstruction. They range from theheavy type of Pacific locomotive o.fnearly 200 tons, to the light six-coupleddouble-ender locomotive of 80 tons. Afine type of freight engine is shown ofthe 2-8-2 type locomotive, furnishedwith Walschaerts valve gearing, andguaranteed to, draw 250 net tons up a4 per cent, grade with 10 degreescurves. Another fine type is the Ten-Wheel Locomotive, a number of which valves has also been to maintain thestrength of the plates. All business men having need to findthe names of foreign railway officialsought to have on hand a copy of theUniversal Directory, published in Lon-don. The latest issue is large and verycorrectly compiled. This directoryhas the reputation of containing a cor-rect list of all railw