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type of locomotive is offered for passenger, freight, or mixed service, where a locomotive of the " American" type, with four coupled wheels, does ufficient power. The greater length of the engine admits of a longer boiler, and therefore gives increased heating surface. As the increased carried on an additional pair of driving-wheels, the weight on each wheel is not excessive, and is, in fact, less than the weight on each wheel of :rican" locomotive of corresponding cylinder, total wheel-base, ...with 8-wheeled tender attached, varies from 40 feet 6 inches for Class 10-22 D to 43 feet for Class 10-26 D. From 18 inches to uld be added, to allow for clearance of flanges, to give the length of turn-table required, driving-wheels can be made with flanges on the front and back pairs and without flanges on the middle pair, or with flanges on the middle and s and the front pair without flanges. The truck can be made with swinging bolster, where required for passing short curves; otherwise, a rigid- ck with middle and back pairs of driving-wheels flanged will give good results.
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