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 Age v 103 n 24 Dec 11 1937 p 826-32)


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    Title :

    Reading installs light streamline train


    Additional title:

    Ry Mech Engr


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1938


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




    Reading installs light streamline train

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1938


    Reading installs light streamline train

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1937


    Reading installs light streamline train

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1937