Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works

2. A new mode of constructing the wheels of locomotive engines and cars. In this the hub and spokes were of cast-iron, cast together. The spokes were cast without a rim, and ter...

After building, during the years 1843, 1844, and 1845, ten four-wheels-connected engines on the plan above described, viz., six wheels in all, the leading wheels and the front d...

"But the safety of the train is not dependent on the brakes of the cars. There is also a valve or air-cock in the steam-chest, under the control of the engineer. This air-cock f...

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In 1842, Mr. Baldwin constructed, under an arrangement with Mr. Ross Winans, three locomotives for the Western Railroad of Massachusetts, on a plan which had been designed by th...

A distinguishing feature in the method of construction which characterizes these Works, is the extensive use of a system of standard gauges and templets, to which all work admit...

In the three classes of engines of Division II. certain differences occur between hard and soft coal burners. The print on page 68 illustrates the plan of the soft coal or wood...

| | | | DRIVERS. |Truck. |Weight in| Designation| SERVICE. | Gauge. |Cylinders.|-------------| No. |Working | of Class. | | | |No.|Diameter.|Wheels.|Order. | -----------+-------...

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...

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 thre...