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Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Baldwin locomotives; Locomotives -- Catalogs
Of the best Pennsylvania cold-blast charcoal iron, three-eighths inch
thick, or of best homogeneous cast-steel, five-sixteenths inch thick;
all horizontal seams and junction of waist and fire-box
double-riveted. Boiler well and thoroughly stayed in all its parts,
provided with cleaning holes, etc. Extra welt-pieces riveted to inside
of side-sheets, providing double thickness of metal for studs of
expansion braces. Iron sheets three-eighths inch thick riveted with
three-fourths inch rivets, placed two inches from centre to centre.
Steel sheets five-sixteenths inch thick riveted with five-eighths inch
rivets, placed one and seven-eighths inches from centre to centre.
WAIST made straight, with two domes, steam being taken from the
forward dome; or with wagon-top and one dome.
FLUES of iron, lap-welded, with copper ferrules on fire-box ends; or
of seamless drawn copper or brass.
FIRE-BOX of best homogeneous cast-steel; side- and back-sheets
five-sixteenths inch thick; crown-sheet three-eighths inch thick;
flue-sheet one-half inch thick. Water space three inches sides and
back, four inches front. Stay bolts seven-eighths inch diameter,
screwed and riveted to sheets, and not over four and one-half inches
from centre to centre. Crown bars made of two pieces of wrought-iron
four and one-half inches by five-eighths inch, set one and one-half
inches above crown, bearing on side-sheets, placed not over four and
one-half inches from centre to centre, and secured by bolts fitted to
taper hole in crown-sheet, with head on under side of bolt, and nut on
top bearing on crown bars. Crown stayed by braces to dome and outside
shell of boiler. Fire-door opening formed by flanging and riveting
together the inner and outer sheets. Blow-off cock in back or side of
furnace operated from the footboard.
GRATES of cast-iron, plain or rocking, for wood and soft coal; and of
water tubes, for hard coal.
ASH-PAN, with double dampers, operated from the footboard, for wood
and soft coal; and with hopper with slide in bottom, for hard coal.
SMOKE-STACK of approved pattern suitable for the fuel.
CYLINDERS.
Placed horizontally; each cylinder cast in one piece with half-saddle;
right and left hand cylinders reversible and interchangeable;
accurately planed, fitted and bolted together in the most approved
manner. Oil valves to cylinders placed in cab and connected to
steam-chests by pipes running under jacket. Pipes proved to two
hundred pounds pressure.
PISTONS.
Heads and followers of cast-iron, fitted with two brass rings
babbited. Piston-rods of cold-rolled iron, fitted and keyed to pistons
and crossheads.
GUIDES.
Of steel, or iron case-hardened, fitted to guide-yoke extending
across, or secured to boiler and frames.
VALVE MOTION.
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