Pocket guide to american locomotives

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DIESEL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES:

208

General Electric 44

Ton Yard and Road Gear 4-8

ft. -in

Two

No. of engines per cab

Horsepower available

y

2

0-4-4-0

Wheel arrangement

Service Locomotive 14-EL

Air brake schedule

General Characteristics, Weights and Dimensions Track, gauge,

General Electric

350

for traction

ratio

11.25:1

Continuous- rating t.f., lb Continuous-rating speed, m.p.h Maximum safe-speed, m.p.h Starting tractive force (at 30 per cent adhesion),

13,000

Seven 35

26,400

lb

Journal bearings: Friction

Type Size,

5

in

by 9

Partial tist of Railroads Using the

70 Ton Switching tocomotive

Wheels:

Four

pairs Idling, pairs

Driving,

33

Diameter, in

Wheel base, Truck

ft-in.

6-10 18-9

Locomotive, between truck centers

Underf rame construction Weights in working order, Locomotive,

On

Welded

S9,000 89.000 86,000

drivers

Light

Maximum

fabricated

lb.

total

dimensions, over-all,

ft. -in.:

Width

10-1

Height Length, inside knuckles

33-5

Minimum

radius curvature, with train

13-3

125

ft.

Supplies (total capacity)

Lubricating oil, gal Fuel oil, gal

Engine cooling water, Sand, cu.

ft

gal

50 250 40 8

Atchison, Topeka

& Santa Fe

Boston & Maine Canadian National Chicago, Burlington

& Quincy

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul

&

Pacific

Erie

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Denver & Rio Grande Western Great Northern Illinois Central Maine Central Minneapolis & St. Louis Missouri Pacific New York, New Haven Northern Pacific Pennsylvania St. Louis-San Francisco Southern Pacific Southern

Union

Pacific

&

Hartford


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