Identifier: railwaymechanica91newy (find matches)
Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Three-Cylinder Tank Locomotive for Passenger Service, North Eastern Railway admission. The valve for the centre cylinder is on thetop with its axis inclined downwards to the centre of thecrank axle. The valve chests for the outside cylinders areinside the frames at the side of their respective cylinders.The two four-wheel bogies are alike. Each journal is pro-vided with two coil springs taking the weight through crossbeams spanning the axle boxes. The leading springs of the service of an intermittent nature three-cylinder engines seemto offer distinct advantages. They are less complicated thanfour-crank arrangement and the writer favors their moregeneral adoption, either with simple or with compoundcylinders. The 0-6-4 engines used by the Midland were introducedto take the place of 0-4-4 locomotives originally used. They
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Great Western 2-6-2 Passenger Tank Locomotive leading bogie and the trailing springs of the rear bogieare made more resilient than the other bogie springs and itis claimed that this arrangement enables the engine to travelover the road more easily. The engines are fitted with tlieWestinghouse brake equipment which works the brake onthe engine as well as the train. are doing excellent work, especially in the Birmingham andManchester districts. In the Manchester district they handletrains which load up to 200 tons behind the engine overruling grades of 1 in 100 to 1 in 130 at 31 miles per hour,including stops. About Birmingham they haul 130-ton trainsover grades of 1 in 75 to 1 in 165, at 35 miles per hour, i August, 1917 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 429 including stops. Tlie cylinders are between the frames andhave flat valves working in chests between the cylinders andoperated by the ordinary link gear. A steam brake andsteam sanding gear is provided. The wheel splashers andthe motion

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