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Title: The railroad and engineering journal
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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r-?-^,.^ ^*^=; ARTICULATED COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVE, DECAUVILLE SYSTEM. carried into practice in 1887, thanks to the intelligent co-operation of M. Paul Decauville, who readily comprehendedthe advantage of using on his system of railroad a type oflocomotive combining great power, flexibility and the divi-sion of the load over a number of bearing points. A common mistake which has been made in describingthis machine is of representing it as carried upon twotrucks. In reality there is only one truck forward, which the use of four axles, and the second made it impossible tocouple these four axles together, and rendered the divisionof the machine into two groups necessary. Both theFairlie and Meyer type fulfilled these conditions ; but Imust be permitted to consider my own as much more sim-ple and economical in working, and I think that practicehas made this very clear.There have already been built over 30 locomotives of 204 THE RAILROAD AND (May, 1891. this type for gauges varying from 24 to

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