The Robert Pearson Collection:
Photos
The Robert Pearson Collection:
Photos
The photos below don't fit under the other manufactures.
If you can fill in any of the missing details please let me know. Marty J
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72 dpi | Lancaster Patent Locomotive. Peter
Kuntz provided additional information on the Lancaster
Patent Locomotive of New York. James Lancaster apparently moved to England in the mid- 1890's, and with a local associate named John Hughes of Ruabon, Wales, he founded the British Compressed Air Tramways Company. This company was involved in compressed air car trials in Chester, England. They built the Hughes- Lancaster low pressure system (200 psi) where the cars were recharged at every stop by an automatic filling device from an air pipeline that ran along the tracks. This mechanical device seems to have worked not so well, and the low- pressure cars had a tendency to go out of power between the stops My source "Die verschiedenen Methoden der mechanischen Strreckenförderung im Bergbau" by Aloysius Stein (Gelsenkirchen 1898) states that the tests were to be terminated and the Chester tramway was to be electrified. And that it indeed was in 1898/99. That was obviously the end for the Hughes- Lancaster system- the company just disappeared and with it Jim Lancaster. |
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72 dpi | Unknown locomotive
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Empire mine had several small compressed air locomotives, built by Edward A Rix. Overall Dimensions: 5’ long x 30” wide x 52” tall Gauge: 18”, Locomotive Tank: 36” dia, 48” long, Pressure: 500 lbs Locomotive driven by a pair of vertical engines and a chain and sprocket drive connecting the craft shaft with the rear axle. For additional details see Compressed Air Plant For Mines by Robert Peele, 1st ed. 1908, pp306-308 |
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Swiss air locomotive used in the construction of the Simplon tunnel. For additional details see Compressed Air Magazine, July 1902, Vol VII, No 6, pp1906-1908 |
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Unknown locomotive from E Rix's book on compressed air. |
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72 dpi | Fireless locomotive built by Lima Locomotive Works for the National Cash Register Co. |
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72 dpi | Fireless locomotive built by Lima Locomotive Works for the National Cash Register Co. |
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72 dpi | unknown fireless locomotive |
