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 352
LOCOMOTIVES, CLASSIFICATION AND FORMS OF. 337 … design admits of very small driving-wheels with a convenient position of the cylinders. It dispenseswith the counterbalance weights, as the reciprocating parts are balanced by the connecting-rods.The tank is here placed under the boiler, the frame-plates forming its sides._ Switching Locomotives…
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