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Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin locomotives; Locomotives -- Catalogs
This system of manufacture, together with the large number of
locomotives at all times in progress, and embracing the principal
classes, insures unusual and especial facilities for filling at once,
or with the least possible delay, orders for duplicate parts.
Full specifications of locomotives will be furnished on application.
M. BAIRD & CO.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS.
The several classes of locomotives manufactured by the Baldwin
Locomotive Works have their respective distinguishing names, which are
derived and applied as follows:
All locomotives having one pair of driving-wheels
are designated as B engines.
Those having two pairs of drivers, as C engines.
Those having three pairs of drivers, as D engines.
Those having four pairs of drivers, as E engines.
One or more figures united with one of these letters, B, C, D, or E,
and preceding it, indicates the dimensions of cylinders, boiler, and
other parts, and also the general plan of the locomotive: thus, 27-1/2
C designates the class of eight-wheeled locomotives (illustrated on
pages 56 and 60) with two pairs of drivers and a four-wheeled truck,
and with cylinders sixteen inches in diameter and twenty-two or
twenty-four inches stroke. 34 E designates another class (illustrated
on page 80), with four pairs of drivers and a pony truck, and with
cylinders twenty inches in diameter and twenty-four inches stroke.
In like manner all the other classes are designated by a combination
of certain letters and figures.
All corresponding important parts of locomotives of the same class are
made interchangeable and exact duplicates.
The following table gives a summary of the principal classes of
locomotives of our manufacture:
GENERAL CLASSIFICATION.
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