Identifier: railwaylocomotiv21newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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of Mr. G. J. Churchward, the loco-motive superintendent of that road. In working order, the engine weighs 97tons 5 cwt., and the tender (full) 45 tons motives on the Great Western Railway,of which we give an illustration; but thetaction of a pair of trailing wheelsin the design of The Great Bear hasenabled the size of the firebox to be in-d and the boiler to be lengthenedconsiderably. The boiler barrel is 23 ft.long and 6 ft. outside diameter, being 8ft. 2 ins. longer and 6 ins. larger in cir-cumference than the ten-wheelers. Theengine wheel base is 34 ft. 6 ins., and thatof the tender is 17 ft.; the rigid wheelbase of the engine has been reducedfrom the 14 ft. 9 ins. to 14 ft. The totalwheel base of engine and tender is 61 ft.oyi ins., and the total length over all 71 ft.2J4 ins. The four cylinders are all high pressure,having a diameter of 15 ins. and stroke of26 ins. The boiler is of the Belpaire pat-tern, having a wide firebox, and is fittedwith a superheater. The heating surface
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FIRST 4-6-2 ENGINE IN GREAT BRITAIN—GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. applied and they gave excellent results.There is a foreman in the Southernshops at Birmingham, Ala., by thename of V. H. Winnberg, who nodoubt will remember the circumstance.So far as known there is no patent onthis device and all railroads can usesame if they so desire and they willfind it a good investment. If you deemproper you can publish this letter.St. Louis. Mo. L. Bartlett. Newest Things in the Oldest City.Damascus, whose pedigree is the long-est of living cities, is losing its character.An enterprising Belgian company is cut-ting through it with an electric tramway,and is sprinkling electric lights in its an-cient streets. What is more, the motivepower for these installations is derivedfrom the harnessing of the river fallstwenty-two miles off, so that no featureof the modern invasion is spared the 15 cwt., giving a total weight on railsof 143 tons, these are long tons thusshowing The Great Bear to bemuch the heavie

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