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Identifier: americanengineer83newy (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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lustrations and tables of dimensions will show thegeneral features. The point of greatest interest is the boiler, which differs ina number of details from designs on most other railways, although it is very similar to former arrangements on this road.It incorporates a 3 ft. combustion chamber, which several yearsexperience has shown to be a decidedly good thing for serviceof this character, and has 366 2-in. tubes set about 2J6 in. cen-ters. The tubes, 17 ft. 6 1/16 in. in length over tube sheets, give3,332 sq. ft. heating surface. The illustration shows the schemeof locating the tubes for using the area available to the bestadvantage. The combustion chamber has a water space ofabout 8 in. at the bottom which narrows somewhat at the sides.The throat of the firebox is 28^ in. in depth to the bottom ofthe mud ring, a practice which was started on this road a num-ber of years ago and has been consistently followed since. Thefirebox is radially stayed, there being five rows of sling stays
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-« l*i< X MIKADO TYPE LOCOMOTIVE, C) MILWAUKEE & PfGET SOUND RAILWAY. two months and has proven itself capable of doing all that was near the front of the crown sheet, no crown bars, however, expected of it. They have also shown that in cases of emergency being used. Four 2-in. combustion flues, two on either side, they will be able to handle passenger trains over the mountains are located in the side water legs just above the normal fireat almost schedule speed. As far as power, size and weight are concerned these locomo- * See American Engineer, 1905, page 5, and 1906, page 392. (305) AufiUST 306 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. August, 1909.

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  • bookid:americanengineer83newy
  • bookyear:1893
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
  • booksubject:Engineering
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York___M_N__Forney
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:324
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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