Identifier: railwaylocomotiv36newy (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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- passenger trains. Five ofthese locomotives were purchased and placed in servicein 1919.
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180-Ton Baldwin.Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, Now in Operation on the New York, New Haven i Hartford Railroad and 1908. are the 2-6-2 tyjie and weigh 102 tons com-plete. The la.st five (jassenger locomotives were built in1919 and are the 2-6-2 + 2-6-2 type, weighing 180 tonscomplete. Sixteen 80-ton. 0-8-0 type switcher loconxntives were placwl in service in 1912. and thirty-six 110-ton 2-8-2 type road freight ermines in 1912 and 1913.The first of the ?>1> multiple-unit motor cars were oi>eratedin 1909 and the last eight cars went in service in 1922.Tliese cars range in weight from 84 to 91 tons completewith all e(jui;7ment (no load) and are really lotx)motives,as each motor car is capable of hauling two trail cars. In 1916 and 1917 a ven.- complete study was made ofthe traflic requirements to rietermine wliat tyi>e of motivepower was l)est adapted for the service. The originalt>r)es of freight and switcher locomotives were consjd-ere<l .siMtable for haridling the

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