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" ... the wheels have broad grooved tires a foot or so in width that are adapted to running upon a track formed of logs placed end to end. The other is known as the Shay locomotive and is fitted to run on ordinary rails. Such an engine is shown in Fig. "
Modern Engineering Practice: A Reference Library... - Page 330
by American School (Chicago, Ill.) - 1906
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Statement of Work Done by the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry During ...

Pennsylvania. Department of Forests and Waters - Forests and forestry - 1898 - 346 pages
...connected locomotives. The weight is all on the drivers and it is built on two four-wheeled center-bearing, swiveled trucks, the wheels of which are driven by bevel gearing attached to the right hand wheels of each truck, and with the steel pinions mashing into the same, and carried by a...
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Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Issue 3, Part 2

Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1898 - 348 pages
...connected locomotives. The weight is all on the drivers and it is built on two four-wheeled center-bearing, swiveled trucks, the wheels of which are driven by bevel gearing attached to the right hand wheels of each truck, and with the steel pinions mashing into the same, and carried by a...
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Cyclopedia of Engineering; a Complete Manual of Steam and Machine ..., Volume 2

1902 - 582 pages
...ordinary rails. Such an engine is shown in Fig. 52. It is built on three four-wheeled center-bearing swiveled trucks, the wheels of which are driven by...placed vertically on the side of the boiler. This arrangement leaves each truck free to adjust itself to curves and irregularities of the track. The...
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Marine and locomotive work

American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 510 pages
...ordinary rails. Such an engine is shown in Fig. 52. It is built on three four-wheeled center-bearing swiveled trucks, the wheels of which are driven by...gearing attached to the right-hand wheels of each track with steel pinions meshing into them, carried by a shaft running in bearings attached to the...
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Cyclopedia of Engineering: A Manual of Steam Boilers, Steam Pumps ..., Volume 3

Electrical engineering - 1906 - 680 pages
...locomotives are of two types. One is built after the i 'ii > j^wi^l» ,r.*^y'>t ««'Jf.i&'lL.'.nik- -J* .general pattern of the four-wheeled switching locomotive...gearing attached to the right-hand wheels of each track with steel pinions meshing into them, carried by a shaft running in bearings attached to the...
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The New International Encyclopaedia, Volume 12

Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1906 - 928 pages
...ordinary rails. Such an engine is shown in Fig. 16. It is built on three four-wheeled centre-bearing swiveled trucks, the wheels of which are driven by...carried by a shaft running in bearings attached to the journal-boxes, and extending from axle to axle of each truck. The power is communicated in these pinion...
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The New International Encyclopæeia, Volume 12

Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1909 - 926 pages
...ordinary rails. Such an engine is shown in Fig. 16. It is built on three four-wheeled centre-bearing swiveled trucks, the wheels of which are driven by...carried by a shaft running in bearings attached to the journal-boxes, and extending from axle to axle of each truck. The power is communicated in these pinion...
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The New International Encyclopædia, Volume 14

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1926 - 890 pages
...Such an engine of the Shay type is shown in Fig. 16. It is built on three fourwheel centre-bearing swiveled trucks, the wheels of which are driven by...axle to axle of each truck. The power is communicated in these pinion shafts with flexible couplings extending from the engines, which are placed vertically...
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