Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: 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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Text Appearing Before Image: nto the service and had to be dis-carded on account of the track being tornup near Kingston, and the determined menran ahead and s<«m mvt another trainrunning southbound to which the locomo- make the general appearam a .irly as possible the same as in the war days. Itwould be very fitting to have the rarerelic housed at Atlanta where the raidcommenced, and where it could not failto be looked upon as an interestingmemento of the stormy days of broil andbattle. The locomotive as shown in thephotograph is an old American type oflocomotive or 4-4-0. Some of its peculiarfeatures are as follows : The tumbling shaft is supported by cast-iron brackets bolted underneath the frameinstead of on top, and has an arm withadjustable counterweight to equalize theweight of the links and eccentric rodsinstead of a spring. The links are almostabove the truck and necessitate the useof very long eccentric rods. There areno belly braces to support the boiler, but.instead, there are two boiler braces on
Text Appearing After Image: LOCOMOTIVE TEXAS, WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD. tive Texas was attached. The engineand cars were backed to the nearest sidingand leaving the cars continued the chasenorthward. From all accounts the speedof the Texas would compare favorablywith the best fliers of our own day, andthough compelled to stop several timesto repair the track they gained on theGeneral and finally recaptured the loco-motive and made prisoners of nearly allof the Northern soldiers. The Generalhad been compelled to stop, having run outof both fuel and water. The General.as stated in your columns, is now finelypainted and polished and housed inChattanooga. The Texas has been modernized tosome extent, but there is a movement onfoot to repair the old locomotive and each side fastened to boiler and framesrigidly together, about halfway betweenthe cylinders and firebox. There is nometallic packing on valve stems or pistonsand the valve rod connecting to rockerarm has a strap and key instead of a pinand bushing tha