Locomotive text for engineers and firemen; a complete treatise on the engine, electric head-light and standard code of train rules (1908)
National correspondence school of railroading, Chicago. [from old catalog] · [Chicago] · leaf 278
on rod, and the high pressurecylinders are ahead of, and connected to, the low pressurecylinders. COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES. 267 In the tandem compound the steam does not exhaustfrom the right to the left cylinder, as is the case with thecross compound, but passes from the high pressure cylin-der to the… … 268 COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES. so arranged that both valves can be operated by onevalve rod. On the high and low pressure cylinders, thevalves are arranged for internal admission and the steamports are opened and closed at the same time by thevalve. On the low pressure cylinders the valves are…
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