Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 351
the Engerth system. Its tenderis placed on a separate frame, so arranged that it can be pushed under the boiier, the fire-box ofwhich comes between the tender-axles. The tender-frame is pivoted to the engine-frame by a centre-pin, admitting thus of an easy motion on curves.This style of locomotive… … supported on two trucks—one carrying the boil-er on a centre-pin, and having the cylinders at-tached to the truck-frame, and the other sup-porting the tender, which is placed on the sameframe with the boiler. Fig. 2887 represents a small tank locomotivedesigned by Mr. Brown of Winterthur,…
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