Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States (1883)
Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 427
long by 35 inches wide, withan area of 14! square feet. Tubes, 135 in number, 12 feet g\inches long and 2\ inches in diameter, giving a surface of 944square feet. The weight of the engine, in working order, is 77,000pounds, of which 58,000 pounds are on the drivers and 19,000upon the truck. The… … Fig. 163 represents the heavy eight-wheeled coupled freightengine, known as the Consolidation pattern, designed by Mr.Mitchell, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and built by the BaldwinLocomotive Works. It has four pairs of driving wheels, 49 inchesin diameter, all coupled, and cylinders 20 X 24…
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