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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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ve caps over the ends. The boiler is an ex-ceedingly good steamer. The water tank is 5 in. X 7 in. X20 in., and will hold enough water to make a run of from8 to 9 miles with one person, but when an extra man is car-ried the distance is reduced to about 5 miles. The piston ofthe boiler feed-pump is f in. in diameter, and has a stroke of2 in.; it is .connected directly to the engine by means of aface-plate, and so arranged that by turning a thumb-screwthe piston will be released from the pitman and the pump canbe worked by hand. There is a valve placed in the pipe sothat the flow of the water to the boiler can be regulated insuch a way that it will require but very little attention, andthe car has been run for 6 miles without touching the feed-valve. The jacket of the boiler is 11 in. in diameter and 26 in. highto the slope of the hood, and the stack is 4 in. in diameterand 28 in. high. The engine exhausts directly into the stackin order to increase the draft, but the exhaust-pipe is so
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V. oo - E- oo oto po Q■< O HH o CO H toa o X Vol. LXIX, No. i.) AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 27 arranged that it can be cut olT from the stuck and the escap-ing steam delivered beneath the car. The framing is in imitation of that of the three wheeledSheffield velocipede ear. The main frame is 18 in. widelie!ween the side rails to aceominodate the boiler, which isdropped down between them to within 2 in. of the track, thusbringing the weight down quite low and giving a good bal-ance. The fastest run that has thus far been made with thecar is 4 miles in 111 minutes, which is a trille more than 20miles per hour. This was without any wind, but it can bedepended upou to make lo miles an hour on an average.Coal is used for fuel, and runs of 4 miles have been repeatedlymade without Bring. VIEWS ON THE WESTERN SIBERIAN RAILROAD. HEREWITH wc give another page of engravings of the in-teresting photographs which have been received from a corre-spondent engaged on this important work. Pigs. 5 and 0

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