History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1831-1920 by Baldwin Locomotive Works

Author:Baldwin Locomotive Works
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Baldwin locomotives, Locomotives -- History
Publisher: [Philadelphia, Pa. : Baldwin Locomotive Works

additional locomotives for this line were constructed at intervals during the following ten years, and the road has been worked by adhesion locomotives since their adoption as above described.

In 1885 a locomotive was built for the Dom Pedro Segundo Railway of Brazil, having five pairs of driving wheels connected, and a leading two-wheeled truck. From this has arisen the title "Decapod" (having ten feet) as applied to subsequent locomotives of this type. Its cylinders were twenty-two by twenty-six inches; driving wheels forty-five inches diameter, and grouped in a driving wheel base of seventeen feet. The rear flanged driving wheels, however, were given one-quarter of an inch more total play on the rails than the next adjacent pair; the second

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