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Title: Railway master mechanic (microform)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroads Railroads
Publisher: New York : (Simmons-Boardman Pub. Corp.)
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h 172.000 lb- ihedrivers. We append a quite full list of the generaldimensions in detail. The heavy weight, the long cylinder stroke Win.,the longest that we have ever known to be used inlocomotive practice . the enormous heating surface,and the combination of these and other brobdigna-gian dimensions in a finished .machine - still poss:sec - 5ne symmetry as revealed in our half- tone perspective of the completed engine—all t:combine to make this a truly remarkable engine.The results of its performance it - will be noted with no inconsiderable it - hat it will o-o into a service which will, as we understandit. be to a considerable extent comparable with thatwhich the heavy compound mastodons are nowmeeting on the Northern Pacific, will tend to evenmore closely center attention upon the performanceof these later engines. It will be remembered Ithe Northern Pacific engine?, which were illin our issue of April. 1S97. were compounds, and the Jandabt, 1898 RAILWAY MASTER MECHANIC. -<-
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ax — o HOS oo oa oac HCO <! aasl comparison of their work with these simples will beprobably quite suggestive. Because of the unusually notable features of thislocomotive we have gone quite extensively into theirillustration. We show in Fig. 1 the completed en-gine in perspective; in Fig. 2 a detailed drawing ofof the same as a whole; in Fig. 3 a diagram of thedistribution of weight; in Figures 4, 5 and 6 the boilerand its detail, and in Fig. 7 a front elevat ion and sec-

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