Identifier: locomotiveengine12hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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sling stays in tlic front by the tubesheet, and in the liack by being flanged tothe outside sheets. Thirty inches back ofthe tulie sheet there is a cast iron supportfor tlie grates, and above it is built abrick wall about ^o inches high. The por-tion of the furnace to the front of thebrick wall forms a combustion chamber..Ml the ashes from the fire pass throughthe largest opening seen at the bottom ofthe furnace into the ash pan secured be- the boiler carries 185 pounds of steampressure. Worked out by the usual form-ula, this gives the engine 27,446 poundstractive power. The driving wheel cen-ters arc cast .steel, the driving wheel jour-naks are 9x12 inches, main crank pinjournals 6x6 inches, main side rod bear-ings 6^ X 554 inches, forward and back5 X 3^ inches. The truck wheels are 33inches diameter and have Krupp steeltires. The weight of the engine in work-ing order is about 160,000 pounds. 113,300being on the drivers and 46,700 on thetrucks.The engine had two 3-inch consolidation
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V.\XDERI!ILT ENGINE WITH CORRUG.^TED FVRN.^CE. Mr. Vanderbilt is a graduate of theShefiield Scientific School of Yale, andhas devoted himself very assiduously tomechanical engineering. The locomotiveboiler has received special attention, and.like many other engineers, he believed thatit was possible to design a stronger fur-nace than the ordinary firebox, and thiscorrugated tube is the result. The illustration of the boiler is so goodthat very little description is necessary tomake details of design entirely understoodby any practical man. A corrugated fur-nace, 64 inches diameter and 11 feet 2i neath. The smaller opening is to removeany ashes that may accumulate in thecombustion chamber. The furnace sup-plies 191.68 square feet of heating surface,and the tubes. 332 in number. 2.164.56square feet, making a total heating sur-face of 2.356.27 square feet. The gratearea is 35.2 square feet. The furnace was made by the Conti-nental Iron Works. Greenpoint. L. I., andis the largest corrugat

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