Railway equipment notes.
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Carillon and Grenville railway locomotive.
The locomotive of which an illustration is given on page 147, is probably the oldest in active service in Canada. It is used on the Carillon and Grenville Ry., a 5 ft. 6 in. gauge line operated during the season of navigation by the Ottawa River Navigation Co. between Carillon and Grenvile, Que., 13 miles, to connect the upper and lower stretches of navigation on the Ottawa River. The locomotive was built at Birkenhead, Eng., for the G.T.R. in 1857, and has been but slightly altered in general appearance since then. J. E. Halsey, General Superintendent of the line at Carillon, has supplied the following description:—The cylinders are inclined up 15 in. diameter by 20 in. stroke; cylinders are outside, with valves of the old-fashioned D pattern, inside smoke box, and so placed as to work on their edges, as it were with their backs facing each other. They are connected direct to the pulling link. The link on this engine does not lift; the pulling link is connected to the reversing shaft, and as the shaft reverses the link block moves up and down in link. She has a good steady valve gear, as the link is supported on both sides by hangers, and works on a permanent shaft. The boiler is 40 in. diameter at smoke box end, and there are 180 brass flues 1 7/8 in. diameter, 10 ft. 6 in. long; fire box 3 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 10 in. and 4 ft. high. The fire box and boiler are both made of Low Moor iron; flue sheet 1/2 in. thick; fire box sheets 3/8 in. thick. The rigid wheel base if 7 ft.; total length of engine 21 ft. The tender is 17 ft. 6 in.; total length of engine and tender 38 ft. 6 in. The diameter of driving wheels is 60 in.; truck of the bogie type, with 26 in. wheels. This engine is a good steamer, and very economical in fuel, and can go a steady speed of 30 miles an hour.