Identifier: railwaylocomotiv36newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ilway and Locomotive Eii^neertnc114 Liberty Street, New York. Rll!2!iL.EiKiieeiJK A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolliog Stock and Appliances Vol. XXXVI 114 Liberty Street, New York, December, 1923 No. 12 The Ramsay Condensing Turbine Electric Locomotive A New Adaptation of the Turbine to Locomotive A new type of turbine locomotive has been built by the a grate area of 38.5 sq. ft. It has a forced draft developed Ramsay Condensing Locomotive Co. of Glasgow, Scot- by a fan placed in the cab. land. Like its predecessor, the Reid-Ramsay turbine elec- The main turbine is of the impulse type and contains trie locomotive, built in 1910, it uses a steam turbine for nine stages, the mean blade diameter being 36 in., and driving an electric generator by which current is sup- runs at a speed of 3,600 revolutions per minute. By the plied to the driving motors. use of a condenser the steam is exhausted down to a The efiqine is maile in two sections, which are held to- \acuuni of 271> in.
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The Ramsay Condensing Turbine Electric Locomoti gether at the center by a universal joint. The boiler islocated on the front section and beneath it are the mainand auxiliary turbines and generators. The rear sectioncontains the condenser with its fan, the water tanks andcoal space. The boiler develops a steam pressure of 200 lbs. jiersq. in., which is superheated 300 degrees I-ahr. beforereaching the turbine. The boiler has a heating surfaceof 1.243 sq, ft.; 300 sq. ft. of sn))erheater surface, and The connection to the conden.scr is made by means ofan exhaust i)ipe which is provided with a flexible rubbercoupling, reinforced with aluminum rings. The condenser consists of an annular nest of tubes builtinto two headers, the exhaust steam from the turbinesenters one header, ))asses tlirf)ugh tlie tubes, is condensedand the water resulting from the con(len.sation is collectedin the other header. From there the water passes intoa well and is eventuallv returned to the boiler to be con- 37

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