Locomotive operation; a technical and practical analysis (1904)
Henderson, G. R. (George R.), b. 1861 · Chicago, Railway Age · leaf 420
gine selected cantake 1,100 tons of loads back of tender up a 40-foot grade ofany length, whereas only i.ooo tons of empties could be hauled.Mixed trains should be determined by means of plate 32. If,however, the grade be only 5,000 feet in lengtli, 1,500 tons ofloads could be hauled. By running… … Fig. 97. take 1,500 tons up a 27-foot grade for an unlimited distance.Therefore, the empties must be governed by this virtual grade,and following down the 27-foot line, we find that it intersectsthe emptv line at 1,330 tons, which is the empty load backof tender, mixed trains to be computed by…
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