Identifier: railwaylocomotiv21newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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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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he Philadelphia & Reading, orwhat may be called the railroad speedwayof America, the road between Camden andAtlantic City. The distance between thesetwo points, to be very exact, is 55 6-IOmiles and the road is double-tracked,block-signaled and balasted with anthra- Mr S.rf.iml Vauclain, superintendent ofthe Baldwin Works, for the Atlantic Cityrun, Camden being a suburb of theQuaker City. The original Atlanticswere fiir cylinder or Vauclain com-pounds and it was on one of these thaiAngus Sinclair made the trip which hedescribed in the columns of this paperfor August, 1898. The Vauclain compounds had cylinders 13 and 22 x 26 ins., and of using it to time the speed betweenmile posts, which practice has given mepositive evidence of the speed attainedor maintainor After watching the speed of celebratedtrains in the Brj I have at cer- tain times been moved to remark to rail-way men and others that some trains inVmerica made better time than those ofother countries. When I proceeded, by
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THE ATLANTIC CITY FLYER ON THE PHILADE) PHIA & READING. cite cinders. The engines used on theseruns burn hard coal. The road itselfcannot by any means be described as abilliard table as far as level is concerned.There are three short grades, 42 ft. to themile, one grade 48;^ ft. to the mile andtwo 50 ft. to the mile, on the road, butthe trains run over the line with thesmoothness and steadiness of the ivoryball on the green cloth. The engines which haul the flyers areof the Atlantic, or 4-4-2 type, and werebuilt at the Baldwin Locomotive Worksin Philadelphia. The name Atlanticgiven to this type of engine originatedwith the engines originally designed by 844-in. drivers. That the Philadelphia& Reading has kept up its high reputa-tion for speed and safe traveling mayeasily be seen from a glance over Mr.Sinclairs remarks of ten years ago, andcomparing the daily performance thenwith the train speed maintained at thepresent time. Our chief editor intends tovisit friends in the Brit

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