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Identifier: americanengineer77newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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44,400 sq. ft . . . . 43% Boiler shop 48,000 sq. tt. . . , 46% Smith and forge 37 840 sq. ft. . . . 36S These proportions are interesting in comparison with the corresponding figures for the Collinwood shops of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway (American Engineer. October, 1902, page 304). These are summarized as follows in terms of the total are.t of locomotive shops proper: Collinwood. Reading. Erecting shop 22% 44% Machine shop 33% 19% Boiler shop .: 25% 21% Black.smith and forge 19% 16% These figures will be misleading unless the descriptions of the two plants are carefully studied. With the erecting space considered as 100 per cent., the comparison is as follows: Collinwood. Reading. Erecting floor 100% 100% Machine shop 147% 43% Boiler shop 113% 46% Smith and forge 84% 36% In subsequent issues the construction of the buildings and the arrangement of their machinery and equipment will be presented in detail,. Januahv, 1903. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 18
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16 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. HEAVY COMPOUND FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVES. 2—8—2 (MiK.vDo) Type. ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILWAY. Fifteen of these heavy Vauclain compounds are now build-ing at the lialdwin Locomotive Worlvs. While considerably In starting, using live steam in the low-pressure cylinder,they are equivalent to single-expansion locomotives with 24-in.cylinders. When running as compounds they are equivalentto single-expansion engines having 2i!.S-in. cylinders. Thetotal weight is 2tiO,000 lbs. and the weight on drivers (esti-mated) 200,000 lbs. In the matter of heating surface theseengines nave but 24 sq. ft. less than the largest area evergiven to a locomotive, the 2—10—0 type of this road having -es^

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
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  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York___M_N__Forney
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
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