Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1922) (14574962397)

Identifier: railwaylocomotiv35newy (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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ped it at onceas a genuinely valuable contribution to working parts of the modern heavy,high-powered locomotives, and somereal progress in this direction had beenmade. The war with its paralyzinginfluence left little or no opportunityfor any real progress. There wasenough to do to keep the wheels re-volving, although a questionable at-tempt was made at a so-called stand-ardization of locomotive construction,simple enough as far as the generalclassification of wheel arrangement isconcerned, but paralyzing in organic the dissecting table. There are intellect-ual attributes in humanity however, thatcannot be altogether stifled, and noneare more vital than the engineering in-ventive faculty in the atmosphere ofAmerican enterprise. Coming to the accomplishment underconsideration, the new locomotive, asshown in our illustrations, in generalappearance presents striking departuresfrom the familiar features of the ordi-nary locomotive, and in numerous de-tails of its design and construction it
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MIKAI. - ■. 1,11 i .iMMiUK NO. 8000. OF THE MICHIGAN CENTR.\L, SAin TO r,K llll, AHi.^r POWERFUL OF ITS WEIGHTA.ND OX TTTE I.KIT. EXGIXE XO. 8977. FORMERLY 248, STILL RUNNING AFTER A SERVICE OF FORTY YEARS the inventive ingenuity of the accom-plished engineers of our time. Thenew Locomotive was planned and con-structed under the personal directionof President A. H. Smith of the NewYork Central Lines, whose long andwide experience in railroad construc-tion and mechanical appliances stampshim as among the leading railroad menin America. As is well known the marked im-provement in material previous to theworld war period furnished opportuni-ties towards lightening many of the changes however laudable they mightbe in design and construction. Not only so but the repressive andrestrictive acts of the multitudinouscommissions, together with strangelyilliberal congressional enactments leftlittle in the way of encouragement inthe vitalizing realm of experimentamong those whose mental equipme