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Identifier: americanengineer71newy (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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auled by a 19x24 eightwheeled engine, one of seven built for the road bv the RichmondLocomotive Works in 1895. from the designs of Mr. W. T. Reed,Superintendent of Motive Power. Thf> run was made November21, 51896, between Weldon, N. C, and the Portsmouth(Va.) shops, the distance of 76.8 miles heing covered in 72iminutes. This time is subject to a deduction of about fiveminutes, lost by reducing speed to comply with city ordinances atSeaboard, N. C., Franklin, Va., and Suffolk, Va., and in crossing Nottoway River, atwhich point a new bridge is under construction; this would leave theactual running time 67A minutes The engine is No. 540 and weighs 112,000 pounds, of wh ch75,000 pounds is on the drivers. The biiler is 58 inches in diame-ter, has 1.732 square feet of heating surface. 17.5 square feet ofgrate, and carries 180 pounds pressure. The drivers are 68 inchesin diameter. The highest speed reached was 87 miles per hour. AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 45 The New Car Ferry Pere Marquette.
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The latest addition to the fleet of car ferrieson the great lakes is the boat Pere Marquette,built by F. W. Wheeler & Company, of WestBay City. Mich., tor the Flint & Pere Mar-quette Railroad. It is a steel boat driven bytwin screws, and is for service on the routeacross Lake Michigan between Manitowoc, Wis.,and Ludington, Mich. The distance is about 53miles. In the accompanying illustrations we show aplan and a longitudinal section of the boatkindly furnished us by Mr. S. T. Crapo, gen-eral manager of the railroad company. Theboat is 350 feet long, 56 feet beam, deptb belowmain deck 19A feet, and 36 feet 3 inch* s deepfrom upper deck to floor. It has four tracksand has a capacity of 30 cars. These, if fullyloaded 60,000 pound cars, would weigh 1.350tons. Carrying this load and 200 tons of fuelthe draft of the ferryboat is 14 feet. The vessel is entirely of steel and stronglybuilt. The hull has six watertight transversebulkheads dividing the hull into seven compart-ments. If a

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  • bookyear:1893
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
  • booksubject:Engineering
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York___M_N__Forney
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:54
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