Locomotive engine running and management : a treatise on locomotive engines, showing their performance in running different kinds of trains with economy and dispatch; also directions regarding the care, management, and repairs of locomotives and all their connections (1888)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 318
ear. The sub-figuresI, 2, and 3 show the motion in elevation, plan, andtransverse section respectively. HOW TO APPLY THIS GEAR TO AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES. To apply this gear, the valve and steam-chest areplaced, as is usually the case in American locomotives,over the cylinders; the valve-stem center… … are no crooked or side strains. To a point A on dia-giam, about two-fifths along the connecting rod from 294 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE RUNNING. the piston end, a small hook-link is pinned. From thelower end of this at D is jointed a lever E, which, ofcourse, moves with the connecting rod both backwardand…
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