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Messrs. Fox, Walker & Co.
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Locomotive Engineering, and the Mechanism of Railways: A Treatise on the Principles and Contruction, Volume 1
By Zerah Colburn, Daniel Kinnear Clark
London and Glasgow: William Collins, Sons, and Company 1871
Page 274
VIII Mixed trafiic engine constructed by Messrs. Fox, Walker & Co., Bristol, for the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Nova Scotia. Plate XLVI (46). Area of Grate 166 square feet Heating Surface 947-5 square feet Diameter of Cylinders 16 inches Stroke of Pistons 22 inches Diameter of Driving wheels 5 feet 1 inch Length of Wheel base 20 feet 8 inches Do. to centre of Bogie 17 feet 9 inches Do. of Bogie 5 feet O inches
This engine is in general design in accordance with the prevailing American type of passenger engines having four coupled wheels and a bogie The resemblance ends there for the engine is entirely English in detail which appears to be much appreciated by the ofiicials of lines on which the engine is at work The bogie is strongly constructed with plate framing and inside bearings and besides having the ordinary rotating movement on a pivot it may traverse laterally for a few inches A slight lateral movement has also been provided for in the axleboxes of the driving wheels There are 150 flue tubes 2 inches in diameter and as the barrel of the boiler is 4 feet 2 inches in diameter there is abundant space for the generation of steam and circulation of water The tender holds 2,000 gallons of water and is carried on two four wheel bogies.
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