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The science of railways (1904)

Kirkman, Marshall Monroe, 1842-1921 · New York, Chicago, The World Railway Publishing Company · leaf 155

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locomotives and cars, Americans have been by far the greatest manufacturers of electrical apparatus relating to carriage. Their plant has from the first been extended and complete so far as science has been able to unravel its needs, while the skill of their designers and mechanics has been… … Schenectady (U. S. A.) Locomotive. Diameter of cylinders, 18 in. ; stroke, 84 in. : diameter of driving wheels, 51 in. ; driving wheel base, 11 ft. ; weight of locomotive, 99,000 lbs. ; water capacity of tender, 3,000 gals. ; weight of tender, loaded, 61 ,300 lbs.

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