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Title:Strong's "Duplex" locomotive, No. 444, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Built in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1886.
Year: 1907
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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FIG. 7. STRONGS DUPLEX LOCOMOTIVE. 38 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING January, 1907 Bogie Well WagonA very interesting type of what iscrflled a well bogie wagon has latelybeen built by the Leeds Forge Co, Ltd.,for the Cheshire Lines Committee, operat-ing between Manchester and Liverpool,from the designs of Mr. J. G. Robinson,the chief mechanical engineer of theGreat Central Railway Company of Eng-land, and is intended for the conveyanceof boilers, large castings, and other loadsof unusual proportions. The part knownas the well, or the sunken body of the carbetween the trucks, is provided with eightcircular links on each side, held to theouter sill by eye bolts, and these circularlinks are for the purpose of passing ropesor chains through to hold the load inposition. The car is intended for a maxi-mum load of about 89.600 lbs., or, as wewould approximate it, 90,000 lbs. At first sight the car body, which hangson links suspended from the trucks, wouldappear to be able to sway backwar

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