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| variety of combustion chambers, baffle plates, and other
devices of a similar nature. The Pennsylvania Railroad as has been indicated
did its share in determining the value of these various appliances.
Experience fully demonstrated that success in burning coal depended quite
as much upon the skill and care of the fireman as upon the special equipment
used on the locomotive; and that it was |
Ten-wheeled Freight Locomotive, built by Richard
Norris & Son, 1864
Cylinders, 17" x 24", Drivers, diam., 54". Weight on drivers,
58,000 lb. Weight, total engine, 75,000 lb. |
| useless to fill a boiler with devices
that were expensive to maintain, even though, when in good order, they
were effective in |
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the Alleghenies, had been established with the opening
of the railroad, for the express purpose of housing the principal shops
of |
Four-wheeled Switching Locomotive with separate
Tender. built by
The Baldwin Locomotive Works. 1866
Cylinders, 14" x 22". Drivers, diam. 50". Weight,
total engine, about 42,000 lb.
Four engines of this class built 1866-1867.
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the System. These shops were becoming steadily developed and
enlarged, and represented at this comparatively- early date, as they do
now, the highest development of the railroad shop. Altoona, as early
as 1860, had become a household word among .American railroad
managers, and the quality of the work turned out at its shops was generally
recognized for its excellence.
It is interesting to note, in this connection,
that on February 25, 1856, Andrew C. Vaulclain, father of Samuel M. Vauclain,
now President of The Baldwin Locomotve Works, entered the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Altoona, |
| reducing smoke. The value of the firebrick
arch, especially when using high volatile |
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and served in various executive capacities in the engine
houses and shops until his |
coal, was fully demonstrated in the Pennsylvania tests;
and this device is today generally recognized as an essential part of the
equipment of coal burning locomotives.
While these developments in locomotive
design and construction were taking place, equipment for the
maintenance of the motive power and rolling stock was not being neglected.
The town of Altoona, Pa., at the base of the eastern slope of |
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American Type Passenger Locomotive, built at Altoona
Shops, 1867
Cylinders, 16" x 24". Weight on drivers
(empty), 38,150 lb.
Drivers, diam., 61". Weight. total engine (empty),
61,100 lb.
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