Description: Locomotive Design Part III—Smokebox, Frames, and Driving Machinery, by Geo. L. Fowler and Carl J. Mellin, originally published by The Industrial Press, New York, NY, 1910. Republished by Nation Builder Books, Leesburg, Va., 2000. 6 x 9 paperback, 47 pages. Please note this book is new, not used. It is a reproduction, not an original. The Contents, as listed on the front cover: Smokebox and Exhaust Pipe Arrangement The Frames Crosshead and Guide Bars Connecting and Side Rods Crank-Pins and Axles Driving Wheels and Counterbalaancing The very first sentence: “The arrangement of the smokebox and the draft appliances contained therein ranks among the most important of the details of designing a locomotive, for upon it largely depends the efficiency of the whole machine. A footnote at the bottom of the first page: “In order to give concrete form to the examples and theoretical considerations, it is assumed that a consolidation freight locomotive and an Atlantic type passenger engine are being designed. It is further assumed that these locomotives are designed for a division 150 miles long, laid with rails weighing 75 pounds per yard and with a ruling grade of one per cent ten miles in length."
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Year: 1910
