Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1911 — DESIGNED FOR SHUNT WORK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DESIGNED FOR SHUNT WORK

Locomotive With an Eight-Ton Shunting Crane Is Being Built by a British Firm. A locomotive designed for shunting work and provided with an eight-ton lifting and sluing crane crane is being built by a British firm. The crane

Is carried on a table erected orer the boiler, immediately in front of the firebox, and is arranged to swing clear of all mountings. A winding barrel, supported between the sides of tbe crane Jib. is driven by means

of a single-purchase gearing from a vertical shaft, passing up through the center of the crane table. Power for this shaft is provided by a two-cylln-der hoisting engine, carried astride the boiler immediately In front of the crane. The two-cylinder vertical sluing engine is placed between the cab front and the crane table. < The feature of the outfit is the suc-

cesaful provision of sufficient stability to raise a weight of eight tons at a radius of only 16 ft., while preserving the essential characteristics, such as the closing coupled wheels, of a shunt* ing engine.— Popular Mechanics.

Eight-Ton Crane or Shunting Locomotive