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Scientific American, Vol. 87, No. 24 (1902) (1902)

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stop for water, in two hours and the locomotive could obtain a seat in the cab for the width being 6 feet 3% inches, and the length 8 feet. nine minutes, an average speed of sixty-one miles per The barrel of the boiler is 6 feet in diameter, and the mere proffer of a cigar. That, however, was long… … cool’”—which the fluttering engineer and verified by square feet ; steam pressure, 200 pounds ; tractive effort, 25,850 pounds. his fireman, than he was pop-valve proved to be true. The predominant im- watching intently for the next; the successive sig- pression, apart from the locomotive, left by…

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