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English: Original caption: "Four-Wheel-Connected Steam Mine Locomotive, Wide or Narrow Gauge. ILLUSTRATION No. 30, from photograph of 10 x 14 cylinders locomotive, 44 inches gauge of track, 5 ft 6 in. height. ... For sake of dry steam, draft of stack, and engineer's comfort the locomotive should not be lower height than the entry compels. Two inches clearance to the mine roof is sufficient. For extreme narrow gauges the main frames are stopped off in front of full-width straight-sides firebox. By special modification of designs we can construct to heights less than given ..." |
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| Source | Light Locomotives, 10th Ed., H. K. Porter Company, Pittsburgh, 1908. This image is a composite of 3 independently digitized scans, one from the University of California Library, one from the University of Illinois UIUC Library, and one from the New York Public Library. Combining these scans reduces the severity of artifacts from both printing and scanning processes. |
| Author | H.K. Porter, Inc. |
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