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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 calls a trimounter, and which wecall a perpetual-motion humbug. The in-ventor of this so-called invention got holdof a gullible Associated Press reporter,who was induced to send out the foUowmgrot in his dispatches; Take an ocean ves-sel, for instance. It can be propelled with-out coal, which means that there is no usefor bunkers, boilers and smokestacks.Street cars can be run without the bother-some trolley and can be operated moreeasily than to-day. The trimounter canalso be employed to heat dwellings andfactory and office buildings, instead of themethods employed now. It will save mill-ions and millions of dollars to steamboatcompanies. There is not a spark of doubtin my mind that my invention will not doall I claim for it, and I regard it as thewonder of the age. We never knew of a visionary workingon a device to overcome the immutablelaws of Nature who entertained a spark ofdoubt that he would succeed. It is the oldstory of a man scheming to lift himself bvhis own boot straps.
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Two Corrections. Following the suggestions in the articleon Locomotive Building in the UnitedStates, in your February issue, that anycorrections will be appreciated, I beg tosay, from personal observation, that theso-called mud digger engines of RossWinans did not have a vertical boiler inthe center, as stated on page 61, theirboilers being of the ordinary horizontallocomotive type. These engines weregeared and presented the peculiar effect ofmain rods and coupling rods moving inopposite directions. They were the Buf-falo, No. 35: Baltimore, No. 36;■Cumberland, No. 37: Elk, No. 41;■Tuscarora, No. 45, and Allegheny,No. 47, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.Again, the Winans camel engines didnot have a wide firebox oveihung theback drivers, as stated, the front por-tions of their fireboxes being set betweenthe back drivers and not over them. Theterm wide firebox is generally and prop-erly taken to mean a firebox which is aswide as, or wider than, the distance be-tween the outer f

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