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id: 39329
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Sparta"--completed for the Central Railroad of Georgia in July, 1852, the driving-boxes were made with a slot or cavity in the line of the vertical bearing on the journal.


id: 46229
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  a Tram-engine.--Its Trial on the Merthyr Railroad.--Trevithick''s Improvements in the Steam-engine.--Attempts


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id: 19133
author: Gregory, Charles Hutton
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  the stuffing-boxes of the piston-rod and slide-valve spindle, or of water Engine-man were required to deliver to the Superintendent of the Station Water is supplied by opening the cocks in the feed-pipes, which allow the Engine-man has the power of regulating the height of the water in the The water is higher when the Engine is running than when stopping: a good working height for it in most Engines is when _water_ blows off from the middle cock while running, and _water and steam_ when stopping: an Engine-man is sometimes obliged to run the water rather lower, if he has Coke is put on the fire by the Stoker, at the order of the Engine-man, turn off the feed-pumps, the steam slightly blowing off, and the Engine The Engine-man should frequently look to the working gear, to see that it In a six-wheeled Engine it requires the stoppage of the train until

title:
  Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine in the Station, on the Road, and in cases of Accident


id: 28160
author: White, John H.
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  THE "PIONEER": LIGHT PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE OF 1851 These two locomotives became the Cumberland Valley Railroad''s _Pioneer_ [Illustration: Figure 4.--MAP OF THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY Railroad as it least one other New England engine builder, the Taunton Locomotive [Illustration: Figure 6.--THE "UTILITY" AS REBUILT TO AN 8-WHEEL ENGINE, recent years, the Pennsylvania Railroad has stated the _Pioneer_ cost [Illustration: Figure 9.--ANNUAL PASS of the Cumberland Valley Railroad [Illustration: Figure 10.--TIMETABLE OF THE Cumberland Valley Railroad report of 1853 describes the _Pioneer_ as a six-wheel tank engine. [Illustration: Figure 18.--"PIONEER" LOCOMOTIVE, (1) Safety valve, (2) time the engine was built, it was usual to house these valves in an [Illustration: Figure 22.--"JENNY LIND," SISTER ENGINE of the _Pioneer_, [Illustration: Figure 27.--"PIONEER" LOCOMOTIVE. [Illustration: Figure 27.--"PIONEER" LOCOMOTIVE. Report_ of the Cumberland Valley Railroad of the style of valve gear used by each engine, states that the _Pioneer_ was equipped with a

title:
  The ''Pioneer'': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964


id: 17783
author: Traveling Engineers'' Association
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  A. Close the main steam valve at the boiler, that will stop the leak if A. The brake pipe pressure begins at the feed valve and ends at the the brake pipe, air from the main reservoir flows to the triple valves of the cylinder, the steam valve opens communication to the exhaust port use live steam in low-pressure cylinder only, for the broken piston. A. Remove the broken piston valve, reduce boiler pressure to 100 pounds piston rod in the air end, or the main valve stuck in its position at Q. What defect in the feed valve will cause the brake pipe pressure valves to release position, thus allowing the brake cylinder air to pressure on the brake pipe side of the triple valve piston 4 above that A. In release position of the brake valve, air from the main reservoir A. In release position of the brake valve, air from the main reservoir

title:
  The Traveling Engineers'' Association to Improve the Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads Examination Questions and Answers for Firemen for Promotion and New Men for Employment


id: 18747
author: Randolph, B. S. (Beverly S.)
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  the rate of grade encountered in the practical operation of railways. the lengths of grade as abscissas and the percentages of weight utilized grades are light in both cases, this feature of train resistance is larger train on grades less than 10 miles in length than on longer grade (as in Item 15 of Table 1) the resistance would be, gravity Examining the items in the table having grades in excess of 10 miles, it In proportioning grade resistance for any line, therefore, a locomotive a 0.02 grade on which a locomotive may be loaded on a basis of tractive Thus the length of the grade, 2.44 miles, makes the tractive is a grade of the same rate, about 1 mile long, near this hill, and a using heavier rates of grade on shorter hills than 10 miles, and indeed grades for 9-3/4 miles, a 29-ton engine

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172


id: 25454
author: White, John H.
title:
  Introduction of the Locomotive Safety Truck Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology: Paper 24


id: 39329
title: Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works
author: Baldwin Locomotive Works
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  locomotive engine and tender, built by Mr. Baldwin, of this city, Legislature decided to adopt steam-power for working the road, and Mr. Baldwin received orders for several additional locomotives. 2. A new mode of constructing the wheels of locomotive engines and in the wheels and tubes of locomotive engines. Mr. Baldwin''s engine had the single pair of drivers patent for an eight-wheeled engine with four drivers connected, and a making engines with four drivers and a four-wheeled truck, of the The adoption of the plan of six-wheels-connected engines opened the completion of the first eight-wheeled "C" engine, Mr. Baldwin''s [Illustration: Fig. 8.--BALDWIN EIGHT-WHEELS-CONNECTED ENGINE, 1846.] [Illustration: Fig. 8.--BALDWIN EIGHT-WHEELS-CONNECTED ENGINE, 1846.] ten-wheeled engine, with six drivers connected, had, however, now engines were constructed with a single pair of truck-wheels in front The ten wheeled engine thereafter assumed a place in the Baldwin worked by two of the Baldwin six-wheels-connected flexible-beam truck


id: 44604
title: How to Become an Engineer
author: Doughty, Frank W.
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  If one is a good locomotive engineer he can easily learn to manage In 1784 the famous Watt patented a steam locomotive engine in England, During the time the engine is under steam with a train, everything It is only while an engine is in steam and going at good speed that the A model engineer runs the most important trains, and he is never the When the engine has got the train up to speed, steam should begin to Either the engine is too small for its work or too great for its man, of box B, and when working the engine should steam issue from it when short length of pipe into the steam box of engine through a hole in the angle by the set-screw on the foot-plate of the engine shown at N, Fig. 2, the model will run in any sized circle you may wish without rails,


id: 46229
author: Smiles, Samuel
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  time is occupied in filling these, a plan has been contrived by Mr. Ramsbottom, the locomotive engineer of the London and Northwestern George Stephenson again appointed Engineer of the Railway.--Chat Moss described.--The resident Engineers of the Line.--George Stephenson''s Locomotive.--Steam-carriages tried on common Roads.--New Railway Stephenson afterward appointed Engineer.--The Railway Works under subject, and proceeded to make a self-moving road engine worked by THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE--GEORGE STEPHENSON BEGINS ITS IMPROVEMENT. THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE--GEORGE STEPHENSON BEGINS ITS IMPROVEMENT. years in all Stephenson''s locomotives employed in the working of the disused, while Stephenson''s Killingworth engines continue working to GEORGE STEPHENSON ENGINEER OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY. GEORGE STEPHENSON ENGINEER OF THE STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY. kind of power to be employed in working the railway, George Stephenson Eight locomotive engines, constructed at the Stephenson works, had Mr. Stephenson and his son, as the leading railway engineers of time when George Stephenson had first projected a railway through

title:
  The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive


