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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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gines recently put into ser-vice on the Xew York Central for fastheavy trains, and they are giving excel-lent satisfaction. These engines are thejoifit product of Mr. Waitt. superinten- inches diameter with 6-inch travel, l-inchlap and J^-inch clearance, set line and linein full gear. This gives )/( inch lead athalf stroke and 9-32 at quarter stroke. Thecylinders are 21 x 26 inches, which with200 pounds gives 24,000 pounds tractiveforce. This is a ratio of almost 4 to i innormal service and about 4.4 to I withtraction increaser in action. The maindimensions are: Wheel-base—Engine. 27 feet 3 inches; Tubes—Number, 396; size, 2 inches;length, 16 feet. Tender—Water, 5,000 gallons; coal, 10tons; wheel, 36 inches; weight, empty,48,900 pounds; loaded, 110,900 pounds. Tender has a scoop operated by air. .\mong the equipment are: Sansom bell-ringer, Gould couplers, consolidated safetyvalve. Mason reducing valve. Leach Sand-ers. Nathan injectors and Westinghouse--American brake apparatus.
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Photographed expressly lor Ra a LocCMOTivE Engineering, by F.W. BUuvelt.NEW YORK CENTRAL ATL.\NTIC TYPE, BUILT AT SCHENECTADY. dent of motive power of the road, and Mr.Sague, mechanical engineer of the Amer-ican Locomotive Company. The total weight is 176,000 pounds, ofwhich 95.000 is on drivers, 42,600 on en-gine truck and 38,400 on trailers. Withthe traction increaser thrown in about 10,-000 pounds are transferred to drivers, re-arranging the weights about as follows:Drivers, 105,000; truck. 37,000, and trailer,34.000. The valves are of the piston variety, 12 driving, 7 feet; engine and tender, 53 feet. Heating surface—Firebox, 180 squarefeet; tubes, 3,298 square feet; water tubes,27 square feet; total, 3.505 square feet. Grate surface—50 square feet. Driving wheels—79 inches. Truck wheels—36 inches. Trailing wheels—50 inches. Driving journal—95^^ x 12 inches. Trailing journal—8 x 14 inches. Truck journal—6)i x 10 inches. Crank pin, main—6J4 x 7 inches. Regarding t

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