Identifier: locomotiveengine13hill (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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asteful of fuel. In regard to this, compound engines andother improved machinery will save fueland reduce one of the heaviest items ofthe cost of transportation. Then, if ittakes less coal for a trip, that leaves moreroom for paying freight and saves thecost of transporting the fuel, two itemsof profit. already learned this fact, and steamboatmen will have to study the lesson of pro-gress. That is the important part of everyAmericans business schooling. In one of the shops of the United StatesCast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company, Cin-cinnati, Ohio, the company have fitted upa room with drawing tables, boards andT-squares as a study room for the use ofa number of its employes who are stu-dents of The International Correspon-dence Schools, Scranton, Pa. The class,which numbers about fifty men and in-cludes the general manager, studies oncompany time and is supplied withdrawing paper by the firm. All promo-tions in the shops will hereafter be madefrom students of this class. The Interna-
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NEW YORK CENTRAL S EXPRESS TEN-WHEELER. pressure of 200 pounds to the square inch.The weight on drivers is 134,200 pounds.The tractive power of the engine, workedup from the data mentioned, is a littleover 25,000 pounds, and the ratio of ad-hesion to traction is almost 5. The boileris 67 inches diameter at the front ring;there are 2,915 square feet of heating sur-face in tubes and firebox, and there are 30.5square feet of grate area. The boiler con-tains 366 2-inch tubes 14.4 feet long. Thetotal weight of the engine is 175,000pounds, of which 134,200 pounds are onthe drivers and 40,800 pounds upon thetruck. The driving-wheel base is 14 feetII inches, the total engine-wheel base 26feet and the total of engine and tender 53feet. The engines in service are reported tobe doing remarkably good work. Sea and lake steamers invariably usecompound engines, and they are built forspeed—first, last and all the time. Aslow boat does not stand much showamong its faster competitors. Prompt dispatc

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