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Identifier: americanengineer70newy (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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he latter unusual about it except the extension front alreadyalluded to and the staying of the firebox crown. The fronthalf of the crown is stayed by longitudinal bar?, the frontends ot which rest on the flange of the tube sheet, whilethe rear ends are suspended from the shell by heavy slingstays. The rear half of the crown sheet is stayed by shorttransverse bars of inverted J, section, supported by slingBtavs to the shell. These transverse bans are only cne-halfthe width of the box in length. This peculiar staying isemployed to avoid rigidity. The boiler carries 160 poundspressure. Tbe main driving axles have joumala inside and outside ofthe wheels, but on the rear axles there are outside journalsonly. The driving springs are without any equalizing ar-rangement of any kind, and are peculiarly disposed in Ihatwhile there ie one spring over each rear journal there aretwo sete of main driver springs; one set is placed over tbeoutside journals and the other set is under the inside boxes.
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New Passenger Locomotive for the Ort I Railway of England. rectangular opening 5; inches wide and SJ inches high isthus formed between the draft timbers in which the draw-bar works. This opening has been adopted as standard bythe M. C. B. Association, as has also the section of thedrawbar at this point, viz., 5 by 5 inches. The drawbar projects ascertain distance beyond the endof the draft timbers, the standard adopted by the M. C. B.Association being lOA inches to _the center of contact be-tween the couplers of two cars when there ia no strain onthem; this would leave only 21 inches between the twocars if the draft limbers were to end at the endsill, whichwould hardly be sufHcient to allow a person to stepbetween tlie cars, and it would be still less if the draftsprings were compressed. When the endsills are on theoutside of tbe sheathing, they are generally tapered downat the ends to increase the space between the cars, but toincrease it considerably for at least part of the width o

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