well. It is an outside connected, ten wheel engine, 15 inch (fifteen) cyhn- 

 der, 22 inch stroke and six 4}:, feet drivers, the extreme forward and back 

 pairs being 12}^ feet apart centers. The whole weight of engine is 53,000 

 pounds, 40,000 pounds being on the drivers. The boiler is 44 inch shell, 

 and has 122 two inch tubes, 10 feet 6 inches long; fire grate 52 inches 

 long, and 38 inches wide. The valve motion is that of the shifting link. 

 The tires are chilled cast iron. This engine is very strongly put together. 

 As for its performance, we only regret that some of its trips were not re- 

 ported to us in a shape warranting us in publishing them. That it does 

 remarkably good service there is no doubt, although it is impossible, in 

 the nature of things, that it should do all that we have heard reported of it. 

 That we may not be charged with prejudice, we will say what we mean 

 by this remark. 



It is said that this engine with 100 pounds of steam has drawn 43 loaded 

 8 wheel cars, averaging 30,000 pounds each, over a 45 feet grade. The 

 whole tractive power of an engine of this size, ivith 100 pounds of steam, 

 cannot be but 9170 pounds. The gravity alone of 685 tons, (30 cars at 

 15 tons and engine and tender at 40 tons) on a 45 feet grade, is 11,645 

 pounds, or 25 per cent, more than the power of the engine. Adding the 

 friction of the train, which could not possibly have been less than 5 pounds 

 per ton, and the whole power required for the load named would be 

 nearly two-thirds more than the engine could have with a pressure of 100 

 pounds. 



The fact that this engine has been unthinkingly complimented beyond 

 its real merits does not diminish its substantial claims to being reckoned 

 as a good machine. While we know a disinterested and very intelligent 

 railroad man who has pronounced it to be the model freight engine of Ohio, 

 we, at the same time, wish to save it from injudicious and extravagant 

 assertions of a degree of superiority which cannot exist in it. [From the 

 Railroad Advocate (January 12, 1856), vol. 2, p. i.] 



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These builders are keeping pace with the rest in improvements, and like 

 each of the other builders, in an original way. We are glad to say a good 

 word for compilers of machinery. Compiling shows a more independent 

 and progressive spirit than copying outright, and at the same time it ex- 

 hibits a respect and appreciation as to the labors and opinions of others, 

 a feeling which is sure to come, sooner or later. The absence of this 

 reliance on other men's experience has been the fruitful cause of abortions 

 and failures. Each one of our readers knows some instance to prove this 

 remark. 



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