Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works

by Baldwin Locomotive Works

Steam-chests with cast-iron tops; bodies cased with brass, or iron painted.

Domes lagged with wood, with brass or iron casing on bodies, and cast-iron top and bottom rings.

Boiler lagged with wood and jacketed with Russia iron secured by brass bands polished.

GENERAL FEATURES OF CONSTRUCTION.

All principal parts of engine accurately fitted to gauges and thoroughly interchangeable. All movable bolts and nuts and all wearing surfaces made of steel or iron case-hardened. All wearing brasses made of ingot copper and tin, alloyed in the proportion of seven parts of the former to one of the latter. All bolts and threads to U. S. standard.

TENDER.

On two four-wheeled trucks. Wheels of best plate pattern, thirty inches in diameter. Truck frames of square wrought-iron with equalizers between springs, or of bar-iron with wooden bolsters. Axles of best hammered iron. Oil-tight boxes with brass bearings. Tank put together with angle iron corners and strongly braced. Top and bottom plates of No. 6 iron; side plates of No. 8 iron. Tender frame of wood or iron.

PAINTING.

Engine and tender to be well painted and varnished.