Go back to: Catalog> List of Products
View Cart

ts49 (1)
ts49 (1)

ts49 (2)
ts49 (2)

ts49 (3)
ts49 (3)

Train Shed Cyclopedia #49

$15.95

Locos of the 40’s & 50’s (Steam) Part 3 from the 1941 Loc Cyc and Railway Mechanical Engineer. 64 full-size pages reprinted from the originals.
Quantity:
Contained in this issue. Union Pacific Fourteen-Wheel Tenders. Large capacity for length and weight, improved stability and easy riding properties are features of tender built on a combined truck and pedestal cast-steel bed. --- Railway Mechanical Engineer: P.R.R. Q-2 Locomotives – Freight Power, with 4-4-6-4 wheel arrangement, has tractive force of 100,800 lb. And is built with boiler capable of evaporating 137,479 lb. Of water per hour at 57.4 mph. --- Railway Mechanical Engineer: Western Maryland Shay – Lima-built geared locomotive having a tractive force of 59,740 lb. And a total weight of 324,000 lb. Is designed for operation on 7 per cent grades and 22 deg. Curvature. – frames and machinery – hauling capacity of 150-ton Shay locomotive – general dimensions of the boiler – the three-cylinder engine – trucks and drive mechanism --- Modernization of Erie 4-6-2 Locomotives – Eleven locomotives being rebuilt with cast-steel beds – Multiple guides of the suspension type have no connection to back cylinder heads --- Alton Locomotives Modernized – Several betterments applied on ten light Pacific-type locomotives permits hauling three more cars with less fuel – seven tons per trip fuel saving – test data secured on individual runs with the dynamometer car. --- Hudson type Locomotives on the New York Central – Notable features of advanced design increase efficiency of performance – Heavier trains handled on faster schedules - Remarkable advance in locomotive efficiency – Many Mechanical Refinements – Maximum drawbar capacity increased 21 percent. ---- Three-cylinder Power Rebuilt as Freight-Passenger Locomotives – Wabash converts 2-8-2 locomotives to modern 4-6-4 type for use in high-speed heavy-duty freight or passenger service – have cast-steel beds – New materials and equipment on the P-1 Locomotive not on the Original K-5 Locomotive. --- Chesapeake & Ohio Buys 4-6-4 Passenger Locomotives – Many parts of eight Baldwin built engines fabricated by flame cutting and welding --- Locomotives Built in Canada – Mikado Type for freight service – Heavy Passenger Power – High-speed Locomotive for light passenger Service, Includes cross-sections and elevations.– Pictures of locomotive in this edition: New York Central & Hudson River 4-4-0, Chicago & Illinois Midland 4-4-0, Pennsylvania RR 4-4-2, Chicago Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific 4-4-2 Streamlined Hiawatha, C.M. St. P. & P 4-4-2. Canadian Pacific 4-4-4, Canadian Pacific 4-4-4 Streamlined. Baltimore & Ohio 4-4-4 type locomotive “Lady Baltimore”, Pennsylvania RR 4-6-0, Boston & Main 4-6-2, Bangor & Aroostook 4-6-2, Central Railroad of New Jersey 4-6-2, Chesapeake & Ohio 4-6-2, Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha 4-6-2, Delaware & Hudson 4-6-2, Pennsylvania RR 4-6-2, Grand Trunk Western 4-6-2 Missouri Pacific (I.G.N) 4-6-2, Canadian Pacific 4-6-2, Rutland 4-6-2, Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis rebuilt streamlined 4-6-2, Lehigh Valley Rebuilt 4-6-2 ( John Wilkes) The Following Streamlined Locomotives: Canadian National 4-8-4, Union Pacific 4-6-2, Pennsylvania 4-6-2, New York Central 4-6-4, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4-6-2. And many more! This Book is new!
** JUST A NOTE: THE SHIPPING PRICE BELOW CAN COVER THE SHIPPING COST ON THREE TRAINS SHIPPED AT THE SAME TIME! **

nonetrain_shed_cyclopedias_319237_detail.htm