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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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2. Tubes, number of—376. Tubes, diameter—2 inches. Tubes, length over tube sheets—14 feet2 inches. Fire-brick supported on water tubes.No. 8 Allison, 3-incli. Heating surface, tubes—2,772.6 squarefeet. Heating surface, water tubes—32.1square feet. wanna Railroad. For miles its track fol-lows the old .Morris & Essex Canal, builtbefore the railroad was dreamed of, forthe purpose of bringing coal from themountains to the great city of New York.A canal in a mountainous region is a thingof wonder, and the traveler has numerousopportunities of viewing the curious ma-chinery by which the canal boats are drawnup the hills on railroads to strike the canalat a new level, or lowered from the canalfrom a higher level, to continue furtherdown the mountain. This old canal,though grass-covered and bordered by themost magnificent shrubbery, is still used,and the traveler sees from time to timeone of the old boats moving slowly throughthe limpid waters, with sleepy mules formotive power.
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SCHENECTADY TEN-WHEELER FOR NORTHERN PACIFIC. Weight on drivers—134,200 pounds. Wheel-base, driving—14 feet 10 inches. Wheel-base, rigid—14 feet 10 inches. Wheel-base, total—26 feet 8 inches. Diameter of cylinders—22 and 34 inches. Stroke of piston—30 inches. Piston-rod and valve-stem packingsJerome. Size of steam ports—23 x 2% inches. Size of exhaust ports—23 x 3 inches. Size of bridges—i)i inches. High-pressure piston valve; low-pres-sure, Allen-American. Greatest travel of valves—6H inches. Outside lap of valves—High-pressure,1% inches. Inside lap of valves—Clearance, H inch. Diameter of driving wheels—63 inches. Diameter and length of driving jour-nals—9 inches diameter by 11 inches. Diameter and length of main crank-pinjournals (main side, 7x5^ inches)—6Kinches diameter by 6 inches. Heating surface, firebox—208 squarefeet. Heating surface, total—3.012.7 squarefeet. Grate surface—34.22 square feet. Boiler supplied by Hancock inspirator,type A, s

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Hill__John_A___John_Alexander___1858_1916
  • bookauthor:Sinclair__Angus__1841_1919
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • bookpublisher:New_York___A__Sinclair__J_A__Hill__etc__
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:562
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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