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Show A Mounter on Wheels. A mammoth locomoti ve is rapidly noar-lng noar-lng completion at the Schenectady Locomoti Loco-moti vo works. It was designed by George B. Strong, of tho Strong Locomotive company. com-pany. When completed the engine will easily malce eighty miles an hour. It is intended for passenger Bervice on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. It will undoubtedly be ono of tho most powerful locomotives evor constructed, aawill bo shown by tho following diruen. bioiis: The cylinders are 18 inches diameter diame-ter by 24 inch stroke; the drivers, four in number, are 5 feet 8 inches in diameter. diame-ter. The total wheel base is 81) feet 6 inches, while the rigid wheel base is 7 feet. The leading truck wheels are of paper and aro 2 feet 7 inches in diameter, while tho trailing wheels are 8 feet 6 Inches. I Both leading and trailing trucks have u j swing motion arrangement, enabling the engine to pass over curves at tho highest rato of speed. The boiler contains 205 tubes 3 Inches outside diameter. It is 4 feet 10 Inches in diameter at its smallest ring. The length of the tubes is 10 feet ! 0 inches. There are two lire bdxes, 7 feet long and ii feet 2j niches wido, and the combustion chamber is 8 feet long and 8 feet 5 inohes in diameter. The totaJ length of the boiler is 81 feet. The combustion chamber, in connection with the fire boxes, permits great economy in fuel, as it burns up all the smoke und gas Instead of allowing It to escape. One of tho advantages of the double fire box is that one can be shaken down while the other is left in full blast, thereby there-by avoiding temporary deadening of the fire. The engineer's cab is perched on tlie top of the boiler, about at the center, and is occupied by the engineer alone, the fireman occupying a separate cab behind be-hind tho boiler. The engine alone will "weigh about sixty-five tons, and with tho tender, which is built to ride like a passenger coach, the weight will be i about eighty-five tons. Troy Times. |
