traveling along a circuitous route to reach the Canadian Pacific Railway. It first had to head down into the U.S. and south of LakeMichigan, then up through Minneapolis and onto Emerson, some 60 miles south ofWinnipeg. No. 3 has the honor of being the oldest operating steam locomotive in...
Fresh steam is fed into rear chamber of piston 2 from the boiler and steam feed from expanded rear chamber of piston 1 is initiated into, first cylinder 4 (for re-expansion) unless cylinder 1 passes front dead center and, then, in back stroke of the latter, distributor is switched over ...
FIELD: transport.;SUBSTANCE: invention relates to railway transport, particularly, to steam locomotives running on solid fuel. Proposed method comprises thermal decomposition of solid fuel into solid and gas phases, their separate combustion, feed of generated heat to boiler water, production of steam...
Driving-gear.-The connecting-rod of a steam engine is divided into two parts 12, 4, the part 12 being secured to the crosshead and the part 4 to the driven member. The part 4 is pivoted to a slotted link 8 pivoted at 9, while the outer end of the part 12 slides in a slot in...
Improvements in driving gear for the valve-operating cam shafts of steam locomotives465,578. Locomotives. LENTZ, H. Dec. 4, 1936, No. 33290. Convention date, Dec. 7, 1935. [Class 79 (i)] [Also in Group XXVI] In locomotive poppet valve-gear, wherein the drive from a main shaft ...
operating simultaneously the vacuum brake on a train, and a steam brake on the locomotive, the handle 1, used by the driver for operating the air - admission valve, turns a cam 4 which operates a lover 3 connected to the steam-brake valve 5 and also to the steam valve 6 of the ...
Live steam may be supplied through an annular header g and smaller concentric jets f. In a modification the ends of the tubes b are extended downward to embrace the nozzles c, and in a further modification the nozzles c are extended through the tubes b to extensions shaped to give an ...