which would correspond to a stationary boiler of anominal power of 120 horses. 133 THE LOCOMOTIVE. 24. When the magnitude of the capital invested in the locomo-tive stock of a railway, and the large proportion of the annualrevenue absorbed in maintaining it are considered, its economicalimportance… … The passenger engines are so constructed as to draw light loadsat great speed, the goods engines heavy loads at a low speed. Inthe one, the driving-wheels are large, so as to carry the trainforward through a great space by each stroke of the piston; in theother, they are of more limited magnitude,…
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