Identifier: locomotiveengine10hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED, AT THE SPEED OF 53 MILES AN HOUR.Pennsylvania R. R.
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ROYAL BLUE LIME LIMITED. AT THE SPEED OF 55 MILES AX HOIRK. A O., P. & R. and C. K. R of N. I. Railroads. AMERICAN RAILWAY TRAINS AT FULL SPEED. by P. W. Blauvelt, INew York. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. Passenger Locomotive for the IllinoisCentral Railroad. A new passenger engine representingwhat is considered by the builders toclosely approach the highest developmentof the eight-wheeled type, is just out ofthe shops of the Brooks LocomotiveWorks. It embodies some innovations,as would be expected in a machine forwhich advanced practice was claimed,among which are the location of the airpump under the waist of the boiler, be-tween the motion plate and cylinder sad-dle. The sandbox is also under the waist.located just back of the reverse shaft andforward of the main driving axle. The pops and whistle are made to ex-tend from a small dome of their own situ-ated in the cab, up through the roof ofsame, and are cased in. With nothingvisible on the boiler but the bell and sand-box, the machi

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