Identifier: americanengineer67newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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t4U o if o oo o uoo» P3 we t- 03Eh►J B n « a PO ao B Ed ao w a S5O .Jb O Ob M n E-i a a K EdO55 Ek Vol. LXVII, No. 7.J AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 321 It is flue to the Sclionectady Locomotive Works to say tljiitthey make both Uiiuis of rods, but .Mr. Buchaniin prefers thet^pe which we have illustrated. It will be seen that the size of the crank-piu bearing for theni;iin connecting-rod on the Americati engine is 5^ X n^ in.,while that of the English engine is only 4; X 4; in. Tliediameter of the cross-head bearings is the same on both en-gines, but that on the New York Central engine is an inchlonger tljan on Mr. A(himss machine. Tiie,coupling-rod I)earings are of the same length on eachengine, but those on the American machine are 4l instead of4 in. diameter, as on the pjiiglish engine. It will thus be seen, that although the cylinders of the Eng-lish engine have 2 in. more stroke than those of the Yankeelocomotive, the latter has considerably larger bearings for itsconnecting-ro<.l

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