Stainless steel, 5-car train built by Edward G. Budd Mfg Co, drawn by Pacific type steam locomotive, has total weight of 500,025 lb; Budd shotweld process used in fabrication; cars carried on 4-wheel equalized swing bolster truck; locomotives develop tractive force of 40,900 lb, with boiler pressure of 220 lb, cylinders 25 in. in diam by 28 in. stroke, and driving wheels 80 in. in diam; boiler has total evaporative heating surface of 2984 sq ft. (See also Int Ry Congress Assn -- Bul v 20 n 8 Aug 1938 p 849-54; Ry Mech Engr v 112 n 1 Jan 1938 p 1-4 and 18)


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    Titel :

    Reading installs light streamline train


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Ry Age


    Erschienen in:

    Railway Age ; 103 , n 24


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1937


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Reading installs light streamline train

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1937


    Reading installs light streamline train

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1938


    Reading installs light streamline train

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1938