Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-21

Of the same dim@nsions. Keyed to
this idler shaft this gear wheel was
geared into a third wheel. This wheel
was on the rear Of. the two axles that
are boxed into a truck frame. This
truck was secured by a castiron sad
die to the under side of the cylinder
OF the boiler, with ball joint center
pin, and the connection between
these two pair of wheels are by side
rods similar to the two pair of rear
driving wheels. The power is trans
mitted through these gears, (or jew
els, as the men had dubbed them) to
the two front wheels. Frequently,
under a heavy strain, they would
strip the teeth out of the gear. ct
was no unusual thing to hear old rail-
road men remark that old Plumsack
John Holland or Dick Dayton had
dropped his jewels).
Engines II, SO, "a, 35, AZ and as
were all of this same type. The valve
movement was from eccentrics Sc
cured on an arm keyed to the crank
pin on the main driving wheel axle.
The front end of the eccentric rods
were secured in two circular box
links, straddling the pin on the rock
er shaft arm. BY an arm secured to
the same shaft thesteam valve got it's
movement. Directly over the top of
the boiler the reverse shaft was sus-
pended with a rod and a long Jaw
connected with the lower or back &C.
centric rod. me pendulum arm was
suspended from brackets and braces
from the side and front and on top
of the boiler, directly back of the
smoke box. On this shaft, from which
the pendulum got its support, was
keyed an arm that worked the pump,
which was short stroke. The pump
was secured to the side of the smoke
box and was n of the first things
to be put out of service in a collision.
(And collisions or 'buttin matches
were no unusual things in those days
with the single tracks and no tele-
graph, as the custom of the road at
that time was to run for a halfway
post between sidings).
No. II had two fire boxes, with the
door of the back fire box directly
in the rear. This furnace was sepa-
rated from the front one by a bridge
wall. The front furnace extended
forward to the tube sheet. The door
for this was on the side of the boiler
back of the cylinder. No. II swas the
the line. At that time nothing was
known of the steam jet and to en-
able them to get a draft Oh the fire
in the two furnaces, a small oscil-
lating engine which drove a fan
blower, was secured to the top of the
boiler, to increase the draft on the
fires, and used more p~aBticularly
when the locomotive was standing.
When under way the exhapsQ steam
passed through an eXhausN box ton
tanning a number of small tubes. The
dome in this class of engines was di-
rectly opposite the cylinders, and the
throttle valve and drive pipe conhect-
ed with the steam chest, tbyiia T
branch passing through the lower
part or cone base on which the dome
was secured.
| will now endeavor to give you a,
more detailed account of the tender,
or tank, then in use, refeffed--fo by
Rusticus. These tenders were very
similar to the ordinary box cars,
with one end removed and the roof
extending out so as to protect, in
a measure, the engineer and fireman
from storms. They stood in the real
of the boiler. In the back of this
tender, inside was a cylinder iron
tank 6 feet in diameter and 6 feet
high for water supply. In front of
this vas the coal bunker for coal.
A platform was extended out some
feet in the rear and framed into this
was a support holding the fulcTum
of the brake lever, referred to BIZ R.
This lever extended up above the foot
board on which the brakeman or
(train guard) rested his feet as he
sat in his gig top, which was on "a,
line with the roof of the tender. This
gig resembled a doctors gig. From
this seat he applied the brakes with
his feet. The brakes had ar head,
on the other end OF this levGHseXtend-
ing down until it came in line with
the tender wheel aXles and was con
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