Details pertaining to improvements made to 10 light Pacific type steam locomotives; tests indicate that, as result of increasing tender size and installing more efficient modern equipment and appliances, drawbar horsepower has been increased 27.2% and unit fuel consumption decreased 23.6%; locomotives are regularly handling three more passenger cars per train than formerly and without any double heading on fast schedule between Chicago and St Louis, Mo.


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    Titel :

    Alton locomotives modernized


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Ry Mech Engr


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1945


    Format / Umfang :

    4 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


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