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Title: Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ght above the grate. There were282 flues. The stack was 13 ins. in di-ameter and 14 ft. 6 ins. above the rails.Cylinders 10 by 20 ins. Wheels 33 ins. indiameter. The driving wheels weregeared to a larger gear wheel driving bya single piston. A fan blast was used inaiding combustion. The steam pressurewas SO lbs., and the cost of the locomotivewas $4,500. The first double engines ap- gearing. Latterly a cab and tank wereattached to the crabs. After thesecuriosities came a new class, some ofwhich were furnished by William Norrisand others by Matthias W. Baldwin.These were furnished with horizontal boil-ers and swivel trucks. By and by thefour fi.xed eccentrics appeared, and also motives at Taunton, Mass., in 1853. Atthis time Henry Tyson was master ofmachinery of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road, and it was largely through his in-structions that Mason then introducedwhat may properly be called the modern.American locomotive. The designs em-liraccd the telescope boiler, in place of the
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STEAM AND ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES AT WORK ON THE B. & O.
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;te.\m .\-\ii ki-I-xtric locu.motu i:-s .m wcirk o.x tiik i:. & o. tl-e spark arrester. The reverse gear wasoT the drop hook type, and presently theequalizer came simultaneously with the4-4-0 type of locomotive, and by 1840some approach to the modern type of lo-comotive began to appear. It was singular that after the horizon- old dome pattern, horizontal cylinderssecured to the frame, cylinder saddles, andan adaptation of tlie perfected shiftinglink motion. Meanwhile Ross Winans. an eminentengineer in the employ of the Baltimore& Ohio Company, had been experiment- St sill EII\\\.\ RI\ER BRIDGE, r.ALTIMORE & OHIO R.MLROAri. peared in 1834, and were of the grass-hopper, or beain, type. These were fol-lowed by the crab type, the boiler andgeneral equipment being the same withthe exception of the cylinders which wereplaced horizontally, the motion being con-veyed, as formerl.v, from the engine tothe running wheels by intermediary spur tal cylinders had been in use for sometime

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