The Walschaert and Other Modern Radial Valve Gears for Locomotives: A Practical Treatise on the Locomotive Valve, Actuating Mechanism Invented by Egide Walschaert; With the History of Its Development and Its Evolution Into the Mechanically Correct Locomot

Excerpt from The Walschaert and Other Modern Radial Valve Gears for Locomotives: A Practical Treatise on the Locomotive Valve, Actuating Mechanism Invented by Egide Walschaert; With the History of Its Development and Its Evolution Into the Mechanically Correct Locomotive Valve Gear of the Present Day

The American Locomotive Company, and the Baldwin Locomotive Works, have issued from time to time pamphlets illustrating and giving the general dimensions of their recently constructed engines, and they have very kindly permitted the use Of many of those plates for the purpose of illustrating the text Of this work.

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