Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — Common in Europe. [ARTICLE]

Common in Europe.

The use of a third cylinder on a locomotive, where the latter is a compound engine and the steam has two chances to expand, is no novelty. Such a plan is quite common in Europe. But a three-cylinder locomotive of the single expansion type is much more unusual, and, indeed, was unknown until quite recently. It Is an American inventloo, too.