History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831 to 1902
History of the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1831 to 1902
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J. Edgar Thomson, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, invited proposals for a number of freight locomotives of fifty-six thousand pounds weight each. They were to be adapted to burn bituminous coal, and to have six wheels connected and a truck in front, which might be either of two or four wheels. Mr. Baldwin secured the contract, and built twelve engines of the prescribed dimensions, viz. : cylinders eighteen by twenty-two ; drivers forty-four inches diameter, with chilled tires. S...everal of these engines were constructed with a single pair of truck wheels in front of the drivers, but back of the cylinders. It was found, however, after the engines were put in service, that the two truck wheels carried eighteen thousand or nineteen thousand pounds, and this was objected to by the company as too great a weight to be carried on a single pair of wheels. On the rest of the engines of the order, therefore, a four-wheeled truck in front was employed.
The ten-wheeled engine thereafter assumed a place in the HISTORY OF THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS 47 Baldwin classification, but it was some years not until after 1860, however before this pattern of engine wholly superseded in Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
J. Edgar Thomson, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, invited proposals for a number of freight locomotives of fifty-six thousand pounds weight each. They were to be adapted to burn bituminous coal, and to have six wheels connected and a truck in front, which might be either of two or four wheels. Mr. Baldwin secured the contract, and built twelve engines of the prescribed dimensions, viz. : cylinders eighteen by twenty-two ; drivers forty-four inches diameter, with chilled tires. S...everal of these engines were constructed with a single pair of truck wheels in front of the drivers, but back of the cylinders. It was found, however, after the engines were put in service, that the two truck wheels carried eighteen thousand or nineteen thousand pounds, and this was objected to by the company as too great a weight to be carried on a single pair of wheels. On the rest of the engines of the order, therefore, a four-wheeled truck in front was employed.
The ten-wheeled engine thereafter assumed a place in the HISTORY OF THE BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS 47 Baldwin classification, but it was some years not until after 1860, however before this pattern of engine wholly superseded in Mr.
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