Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania (1826)
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · [Philadelphia : Franklin Institute] · leaf 498
last of the electric locomotives, No. 10,003, was in factan eight-wheel American-type locomotive, and the records on bothcurve and tangent at once put it in the class of the test steamlocomotives (Fig. 21,). As originally constructed the leadingtruck had free lateral motion, and an extensive set of… … spikes bent as result of lateral impact on tangent tracks. These Franklinville tests concluded with runs of differentcombinations of locomotives coupled together. Apparently whenthe locomotives were coupled, the number of impressions was in-creased, but there was no material increase in the depth.…
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