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Railway master mechanic (1878)

New York [etc.] Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co. [etc.] · leaf 31

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ight look after here at home,where the cabs are small and poorly ventilated.The good sized cylinders of these engines, togetherwith the weight on drivers of about 100,000 lbs., anda steam pressure of 160 lbs., make them a powerfulengine for the service of the mountain roads, and ifwe are rightly… … weight is distributed below through the standardsplaced at each end and terminating in knife edgeson the ends ot the levers 6 and 6, which are sup-ported at their centers by knife edges resting on asolid foundation c; the inner ends ot these levers band d support a disc d, and transmit the load on…

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