Railway and Locomotive Engineering, 1923, Vol. 36 PDF Download

Author: Angus Sinclair Company
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333032630
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Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Excerpt from Railway and Locomotive Engineering, 1923, Vol. 36: A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances The American Locomotive Company recently delivered to the Lehigh New England Railroad four Consolida tion type locomotives that are the heaviest and most powerful 2-8 - 0 type engines ever constructed. The Consolidation type was a popular type of freight engine for a long period, but it has been largely super seded by the Mikado or 2-8-2 type locomotive in which the introduction of the trailing truck permits the use of a deeper firebox and longer boiler barrel with cor responding increase ia boiler capacity. With equal weights on driving wheels and equal ratios of adhesion, a Mikado type locomotive will show no superiority over a Consolidation at starting; but as the speed increases. The tractive force of the Mikado will fall off less rapidly than that of the Consolidation, because of the greater boiler power of the 2-8-2 type. The Consolidation, however, is still a very desirable type especially for heavy drag service where slow speeds will suffice, and where road clearances do not impose too many restrictions, by careful design a high capacity boiler may be obtained. The following are the principal dimensions of these locomotives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.