Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1896 — TEN-FOOT DRIVING WHEELS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEN-FOOT DRIVING WHEELS.

Type of Locomotive Used in England Fifty Years Ago. English locomotives have al ways been conspicuous for the great size of the driving wheels. While the drivers ot American locomotives are usually less than six feet In diameter, seven or eight feet is not uncommon among English engines, and in the early days of railroading it was believed that the best results were to be obtained by the

use of wheels of even larger size. On engines built for fast running a singh pair of hugs driving wfieels seems to have been a distinguishing feature since the earliest days of locomotive construction. In England that type of engine is still a familiar one. The accompanying sketch, which was sent to the Engineer, London, by John Wilson, of Glasgow, shows the outline of a locomotive with driving wheels ten feet in diameter, which was built in Glasgow fifty years ago. Two oi more of these engines were built, but it was found so difficult to get up speed In starting that they were abandoned.

OLD-TIME STEAM ENGINE.