Identifier: americanengine70newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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x, inside 108 inches Width 12%inche8 Working pressure 18iJ pounds Kind of grates cast iron, rocking Grate surface 31.78 Heating surface in tubes 2,049.5 •• firebox 148.6 Total heating surface 2,198.1 Diameter of driving wheels outside of tire 56 inches and length of journals 8 inches by 9 inches of truck wheels 30 inches and length of journals 5 inches by 9 inches Type of tank Level top Water capacity of tank 4,000 U. S. gallons Fuel • •■ 280 cubic feet Weight of tender with fuel and water 76.200 pounds Type of brakes Weslinghouse American automatic Subjects and Committees for the 1897 Convention of Bail-road Air-brake Men. The subjects of reports to be read and discussed at the nextannual convention, and the names of the members of the committees to which each subject has been assigned, are as follows: Air Pumps. Their Troubles and Treatment, and Tools for Making Kepairs.—Otto Best, chairman; Alex. B. Brown, H. F. BickleG. S. Hale, Jno. Hume, Jr., C. P. Cronin, Fred Hain.
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Compound Consolidation Locomotive for the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway.Built by the Pittsburg Locomotive Works. panying cut was made. The engine of the two-cylinder type andthe compounding is on the well-known design of tlie builders.It is intended for heavy service, as is evident by the weight ofthe engine and the boiler and cylinder power furnished it. Theboiler is (i4 inches in diameter at the front end, 67 inches at theback head, is of the straight type, carries 180 pounds pressure,and has 3,198.1 square feet of heating surface and 31.78 squarefeet of grate area. The cylinders are 30 and 31 inches in diameterand 38 inches stroke. The leading dimensions of the engine areas follows: Fuel Bituminous coal Gige of track 4 feet 8Mi inches Total weight of engine in working order 147,6liO pounds ondrivers 133.80(1 Driving wheel base of engine ISleet 6 inches Total 23 •■ 6 and lender 62 10!^ Height from rail to tp of stack 14 ll!4 Cylinders, high pressure, diameier ad stroke 2

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