Text Appearing Before Image: ure engine, makingthree pairs of driving wheels in all. The details have been worked out in a similar mannerto those for the passenger engines, and. the journals keptas long as possible ; compensating beams connecting thebearing springs have been placed between the coupledwheels. Among special features it may be noted that theblast nozzle has an annular discharge, the nozzle—itself i\in. in diameter—having within it a double conical plug 2fin. in diameter at the largest part, which can be adjusted atthe desired height by means of the spindle which carries it. Similar engines to the one described, only smaller, havebeen at work for some time on the Antofagasta Railroad,South America, and Mr. Woods, the Engineer of the rail-road and President of the Institution of Civil Engineers,reports very favorably as to their working. We may add,too, that up to the end of last half year more than 6,500,-000 train-miles had been run with Mr. Webbs compound 72 THE RAILROAD AND .(February, 1888. ^ Text Appearing After Image: wo w H ao3 o o O ooo>J QZP o a. Ou Vol. LXII, No. 2.) ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 73 engines on the London & Northwestern Railway, on which line they are now doing all the heaviest main line work and saving a large amount of double-engine runningwhich was formerly necessary. The following are the dimensions of the engine illus-trated :Cylinders and Motion (Valve Motion, Joys) : Ft. In. High-pressure cylinders 2 Diameter i 2 Stroke 2 o Length of ports o 10 Width of steam ports o if exhaust o 2I Ma.ximum travel of valve o 3^- Lap of valves o ojj Lead o o^V Inside clearance o 0^^ Distance between centers of cylinders 6 6 Low-pressure cylinder i Diameter 2 6 Stroke 2 o Length of ports i 6 Width o 2 exhaust ports o 4I Maximum travel ot valve o 5 Lap of valve o 1 Lead o o; Length of high-pressure connecting-rods be-tween centers 8 3 Diameter of crank-pin bearings (high-press-ure) o 4 Length of crank-pin bearings (high-pressure) o 5 coupling rod 5 9 low-pressure connecting-rod be-tween cente
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