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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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en, published elsewhere in thispaper, some particulars are given of theimproved valve gear under trial on theGreat Northern Railway of England,which raised quite a furor on the other tried without number on our railroads.Great promises of their efficiency havebeen made concerning many of these in-ventions and in many cases they havebeen promoted and advocated by highlyinfluential railroad men. Yet the best ofthem webt to the scrap heap after theirnovelty had worn ofif, and their sustain-ers became weary of carrying the burden.There has been no decade in railroad his-tory in the United States that failed toI)roducc novelties of valve gear, whosejturpose was to dispense with the D slidevalve and the mechanism used for actuat-ing it. The first line of reputed im-provements were in the form of extracut-off valves, and some of them wereheld in high favor for many years, andthe only reason why they fell into de-suetude was, that a plain single slidevalve distributed the stream just as well,
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Engines of this kind are very popular•ior passenger train service on the SouthernRailway, and make the time with heavyfast passenger trains more regularly than:any form of engine the companv have everttried. The restless spirit of Yankee activityis nowhere better shown than on ourAmerican railroads. The department ofmotive power and rolling stock is con--stantly enlarging and changing for bet--termeiit in engines and cars. The en-gineering department is forced to keeppace and consequently is obliged to layheavier rails, put in stronger bridges.widen tunnels and enlarge shops andround-houses. Nor will one change suf-•fice. The long-cherished standards arethings of the past and but memories.No sooner is one improvement com-ipleted than another is projected. The BALDWIN TEN WHEELER FOR THE SOUTHERN. side owing to reports having been madethat its use saved 40 per cent, of the fuelthat would be required to do the workwith ordinary locomotive valve gear. Thenew gear is merely an arrange

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