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Title: Railway age gazette Year: 1913 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: t%2o:^^...s/i—^. ^03- -=i<- Longitudinal and Sectional Elevations, Baltimore & Ohio 2-10-2 Type Locomotive both in total weight and in tractive effort has been made, how- a Security sectional arch and a Street mechanical stoker. The ever, in a locomotive of this type recently built by the same com- superheater is of the Schmidt type, and is composed of 48 ele- pany for the Baltimore & Ohio. This locomotive will develop ments. The dome is of pressed steel 33 in. in diameter and 12 in. a tractive effort of 84,500 lb., which exceeds that of many Mallet in height. articulated locomotives of the 2-6-6-2 type. The cylinders are each cast in one piece with a half-saddle, *See American Engineer, May, 1912, page 31. and the castings are bolted to the smokebox and to each other

Text Appearing After Image: Heavy 2-10-2 Type Locomotive for the Baltimore & Ohio 456 September. 1914 RAILW.AV AGE GAZETTE. MECHAXICAL EDITION 45/ by double rows of 14 in. bolts. The steam distribution is con-trolled by 16 in. piston valves, driven by Walschaert motion andset with a lead of 54 in. The valves have a steam lap of 14 in.,and are line and line on their exhaust edges; the Ragonnetpower reverse mechanism is applied. Xo vacuum relief valvesare used, but the cylinders are equipped with by-pass valves ofthe Sheedy pattern. The cylinders and steamchests are lined with bushings of Hunt-Spiller metal, and the piston and valve packing rings are of the extend the full depth of the frames. The rear frame seotivinsare spliced lo the main frames immediately back of the reardriving pedestals, and are braced by a steel casting which servesthe triple purpose of a crosstie, a support for the front end ofthe firebox, and a carrier for the radius bar pin of the trailingtruck. The main frames have single front rail

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