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Title: American engineer and railroad journal Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: 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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Text Appearing Before Image: teed rate. November, 1907 AMERICAN EXCIXEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 443 TWELVE-WHEEL FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE. Norfolk &• Western Railway. The Baldwin Locomotive Works has recently delivered fifty4-S-0 type locomotives to the Norfolk & Western Railway, whichare in general very similar to an order built last year for thesame road. The most important change made in the design isthe substitution of the Walschaert for the Stephenson valve gear The principal details, aside from the valve motion, were con-structed from the railroad companys drawings. The total weight of the locomotives is 204,050 lbs., of which165,850 lbs., or 81 per cent., is on drivers. ihe average pro-portion of weight on drivers for a consolidation type of locomo-tive is 89 per cent. The tractive effort is 40.200 lbs., giving aratio of adhesion of 4.13 and a ratio to the total weight of 5.09.A consolidation locomotive with practically the same total weightan! the same factor of adhesion would give a tractive effort of

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