The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-26
NEW FREIGHT ENGINES
WESTERN RAILROAD HAS PUR-
 CHASED FOUR.
They Are Up to Date in Every Par ticular-Minute Description Given-Other Rail
 road News.

The passenger service of the Western Railroad is not the only. department that will be strictly Nup-to-date in every par ticular, as fully as much capital and labor is expended in perfecting the freight service.
 The four new freight engines for this road, mention of which was made in
 The Advertiser at the time they were
 ordered, will be the most thoroughly complete pieces of machinery ever put in service on a railroad in the South.
 The numbers of the new engines will be
 Western of Alabama and 10 and Att lanta and West Point 9 and "A. and the four of them will be delivered to the Western people on the 1st day of April. The four will be exactly alike and they are monsters. The steel cabs will be the first ever seen on a railroad south of the Ohio River The specifications are modern and complete. in ever respect as the following kindly furnished The
 Advertiser by Master Mechanic. Walsh
 will show:
 Gauge feet, 1-2 inches; cylinders Hx2S inches; driving wheels, three pair and one four wheel truck; boiler, extended
 wagon top type, 6S inches at smallest
 ring; eight wheel tender; 5000 gallon tank; driving wheel base of engine, 1S feet, inches; total wheel base of engine Sf, J zine and tender "A feet, inches; from | top of rail to highest point, 15 feet; total | width, 10 feet; weight on drivers about | 142000 pounds; weight on trucks about l s, 900 pounds; total about 1S0,000 pounds; total weight of tender 10000 pounds; heating surface. tubes, 2,400 So. ft.; heat | ing surface, fire box, 204- sq.--.ft.; total. l 2.609 sq. feet; grate area, 3oM sq feet; l fuel, bituminous coal. Radial stay. ex- | t.sl I~ af 1.Ref | quality finge steel properly braced | longitudinal seems but jointed, and sex | tuple riveted wherever practicable, with | inside and outside welt pieces, with rivets of suitable size, alternated on | each side of main seam. lines rivet- | ed to inside of side sheet. providing double thickness of studs of
 expansion braces. Inside dimension of
 shell at smoke box, 6S inches; all plates
 planed on edge to sustain a working pres
 sure of 200 pounds. test pressure 240
 pounds per square inch. Thickness of
 boiler plate cylindrical part 3-a inch ;.
 slope sheet. 13-1s inch; shell top. 5-s inch; thu oat sheet, 1916 inch; back head, 9-16 | inch; side sheet of she'll 9-16 inch; home | course. 1916 inch; wash-out plugs at each corner of fire box.
 Blow-off cock. in front of fire box, stay bolts, Ewald Tennessee Bloom Iron, all rows l inch diameter and not over 1-4 | inches from center to center, alternate
 stay bolts drilled 3-16 diameter, 1 1-i
 inches deep in outside. driving axles of steel 9x12. driving boxes of best quality cast steel. with Ajax metal brass fit to
 same, parallel rods of forged steel, body "J' section at front and back, pins fit | with solid end pushed, crank pins of
 Coffin toughened steel piston rods Cof- | fin toughened 4 inches, fitted with Jerome | packing, piston and followers of cast
 steel, packing rings cast iron of approved l pattern. guides best quality steel, bar | alligator type. cross head of cast steel,
 slide valve of cast iron Richardson bal | ance, Nathan No. 9 triple sight feed
 oiler in cab through copper pipes. under 1 jacket, eccentrics and straps of the Lin | strom pattern with a 1-2 inch face. best
 cast iron, eq,ialiZers of bast hammered l iron. fitted with steel bushings for hanger
 gibs. Scott springs to be used, engine
 truck center bearing swinging bolster | having four steel tender cast iron spoke | wheels 30 inches, axle of best steel 1-2 by F. tire O. H. steel 1-2 inches thick
 No. 10 Monitor iujeotors, Leeds rever
 sible pilot, cab of steel, running board l steel plate 3 1-6 inches thick; the crown