1 88 Book of Locomotives 



Other designers had other ideas. Thus, 

 Blenkinsop thought that an engine would 

 pull a load best on level or hilly routes if 

 a cog-wheel on the locomotive engaged in 

 a corrugated section of the line. Some of 

 Blenkinsop 's rails used with his engines 

 can be seen in the South Kensington 

 Museum. 



Brunton was another inventor who felt 

 that the engines could not run on smooth 

 rails, but, instead of giving his machines 

 a special track upon which they could run, 

 he made them use their legs! * Legs? An 

 engine with legs? You mean wheels! ' I 

 can almost hear a reader exclaim. Actually 

 these curious, freakish locomotives had two 

 legs, and they were thrust out behind them 

 by the cylinders. 



The feet of the legs met the track be- 

 tween the metals, and as one was with- 

 drawn by its cylinder, the other touched 

 the ground and gave a push forward. I 

 have never seen it mentioned in any loco- 

 motive history, but I would like to know 

 how Brunton's engines reversed! 



