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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv15newy (find matches)
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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tingliouseAir-Brake Company, San Francisco, Cal.,writes us: I enclose you under separate cover fourphotographs of a new style boiler for loco-motives for burning oil as fuel. Thisboiler was gotten up by the president andmaster mcclinnic of the North Pacific also do a heavy suburban business betweenSan Rafael and San Francisco, having touse ferryboats between Sausalito and SanFrancisco. The ferryboats take about 30minutes to go across the bay. This boiler was placed on a little 8-wheel Baldwin passenger engine. Belowplease find a description of the boiler andengine, from the hands of Mr. J. W.Thomas himself: axis eccentric to the boiler in order toallow plenty of water circulation abovethe corrugate tube. The corrugate tube orfirebox is supported on each end by a 20-inch nozzle, one of which is used to admitair and oil for combustion and the otheris the exit for the burnt products of com-bustion; otherwise it is supported by itsown displacement. The presence of scams, rivets, staybolts
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Coast Railroad in California. Mr. J. B.Stetson is the president and Mr. W. J.Thomas is the master mechanic. This isa 3-foot gage road running from Sausalito.Cal., on the north side of San FranciscoBay to Cazadero, a distance of about 100miles. On the Mill Valley branch they doquite a suburban business and also connectwith the Mt. Tamalpais Railway. They TH0M.\S & STETSON OIL-BURNING LOCOMOTIVE. The boiler is perfectly cylindrical theentire length. The firebox is a Morrisoncorrugated tube extending the entirelength, except about 7 inches between theheads, both forward and back, where thewater discharges both forward and back,from and to the tubes. The Morrison corrugated tube is withinthe cylindrical shell of the boiler, with its and flue ends is entirely eliminated fromthe effects of the fire. In fact, there isnot a double thickness of metal anywherein the firebox. Every part of the boilercan be thoroughly cleaned, including theinside of the tubes, for there are no ob-structions a

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  • bookid:railwaylocomotiv15newy
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • bookpublisher:New_York___A__Sinclair_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:66
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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