The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-29
Big MOgul Of 100 Llass Designed by
O'Leary and COnsIructedby
Local Mechanics
TYPE WILL SAVE
ONE THIRD COAL
Is Known as "Superheater;;" All Depart
ments Work on Job; First
Trial Trip TO FL Reno

Not only have the men working in
the local Rock Island shops earned
for themselves the name of master
mechanics, not only do they turn
out the best work of any shop on
the line compared to the equipment
with which they are supplied, not
only have they done these things
but they have gone a step further
In their efforts to do more for their
country and their company and have
completely built new engine which
is claimed by the expert engineers
Of the Rock Island system to be the
best Of its class that has ever been
turned out OF their shops.
Engines are somewhat like pris-
overs who are in charge and direct
oi by their masters and always, or
as a general rule they nre 'anowN
by numbers. The number OF the
great shining queen that ran out of
the round house for her initial trip
Wednesday is III and hereafter when
children see an engine rushing whir-
ring swiftly by with pride and say
There goes the engine that was
built right here in Chickasha"
The new engine which was run out
yesterday for its first trial trip is
what is known as a seventeen hun
dred class Mechanically it is
Pnown as a 55 h. S. p. model. The
frame work of the new engine is TAX
Ell from the old model IS engine
This framework is the only part that
was not made in the local shops
All of the gearing and other mechani-
cal devices that are not found on the
other seventeen hundred class en-
gines. and which makes mod by
itself was made and turned in the
shops here.
The new engine is what is known
to engineers as a superheater as dis
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In superheater engine the steam is
taken from the boiler through set
of coil pipes back to the flue where
it is heated again leaving it some
thing like gas. The difference be-
tween this system of generating the
steam power and that in the satur-
ator engine is that, in the saturator
engine the steam is taken direct from
the boiler as generated. The super
heater is the system that is used in
all Of the latest types Of engines and
the system has been placed in the
new engine here is the very latest
type of a superheater.
BY using the superheater system
engineers say that the steam is given
greater elasticity and in this way
is able to generate more power in
proportion to the amount of fuel that
is used 1t is estimated that the
same amount of power can be OBJ
tanned from about thirty to fifty per
cent less fuel
Now there is nothing unique IN re-
pairing a piece of machinery but to
the average layman the idea OF
building a new engine is something
out of the ordinary and that is just
what these men at the Rock Island
shops have done. is something out of
the ordinary The designing of the
new engine was accomplished by NJ.
J. OLeary a machinist in the local
shops. All Of the planning and de-
signing Of the gearing and the me-
chanical structure was done by Mr.
OLeary.
Work on the new engine was be-
n1rn several weeks ago and the COM
many was asked relative to making
an experiment on the design that had
been submitted by Mr.. OLeary- It
consented to the plans and the work
was begun. OF course the engine
was completed in all Of the depart