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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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cars, weighing very close to 400 tons.It is scheduled at upwards of 43 miles anhour, on a single track, handling a heavyvolume of freight and passenger business,where a great many stops are necessary,and the train is very frequently late. Speedis governed very largely by the ability ofengines to run. Mile-posts here are regu-larly made in 55 and 50, and often in 48and 46 seconds. Last year, in addition to our own busi- Another Old Timer. The following is a copy of an advertise-ment that appeared in the Boston Colum-bian Centinel, August 9,1834: BOSTON and providence railroad. From and after the 28th inst, the Pas-senger Cars with the Locomotive EngineWHISTLER, will, until further notice,be despatched daily (Sundays excepted)from the Depot at foot of the Common tothe Sprague Mansion House, Dedham LowPlain, at the following hours, viz.: Leave Boston at 6 1-2 a. m. and 4 p. m.Returning, leave the Sprague House at7 1-2 a. m. and 5 1-2 p. m. Stopping atthe Tremont Hotel Roxbury and at the
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SYMONS TEN-WHEEL ENGINE—PLANT SYSTEM. LINE CUT ON P.VGE 482. The diameter at the smallest ring is 62inches. There are 300 tubes in the boiler,2 inches outside diameter and 14 feet long.The working pressure is 200 pounds persquare inch. The engine has 23.539 trac-tive power, and the ratio of tractive powerto adhesion is 4.5. In writing about thenecessity for having such heavy passenger■engines as this one. Mr. Symons says: The passenger engines weigh about■146,000 pounds—that is, about 106,000 on•drivers and 39,000 or 40,000 on trucks.We have five of the passenger engines nowin service, although two of them have justbeen broken in and are still handling•freight. They are doing splendidly, andI have no doubt they will give us first-■class service. ness, we had Southern trains to handle,and when contemplating the purchase ofnew power, the management were alsoconsidering the advisability of consolidat-ing our trains and theirs, the arriving andleaving times of the two trains

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