J 602 booster engine

Mon Mar 13 20:32:39 EDT 2017

Eric:

I was a little surprised to see your negative reaction to Prof. Hay's text,
as I have found it to give a good treatment on locomotive performance
calculations.  I thought perhaps you might have been looking at his later
edition, which deleted most of the steam locomotive material.  That's the
1982 edition.  The 1953 edition that Dave Stephenson recommends is the one
to get if you are concentrating on steam power.  Having owned the 1982
edition for years,  I snapped up the first eBay listing of the 1953 edition
I saw when I needed more information for an analysis I was doing.  I
recommend both editions highly.

Regards,

Dave Phelps

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 9:01 PM, NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org
> wrote:

> Dave:
>
>
>
> Thank you for taking the time to make these suggestions!  I managed to
> snag a copy of Bruce at a Boeing Model Railroad Club swap meet the next
> day, and this morning found a good copy of Johnson on eBay.  I’ll start on
> the former this evening, and eagerly await the latter.
>
>
>
> The Hay seems more about right-of-way design (location, operation,
> maintenance, construction), with treatment of locomotive performance
> requirements that arise from right-of-way design.  I will hold off on that
> until I see it at a good price.
>
>
>
> Thank you again!
>
>
>
> -Eric Bott
>
>
>
> *From:* NW-Modeling-List [mailto:nw-modeling-list-bounces at nwhs.org] *On
> Behalf Of *NW Modeling List via NW-Modeling-List
> *Sent:* Friday, March 10, 2017 15:13
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> *To:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Cc:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Subject:* Re: J 602 booster engine
>
>
>
> Eric,
>
>
>
> Here are some book that will give you an idea how steam locomotives were
> designed in the U.S>
>
>
>
> 1. The Steam Locomotive, Ralph Johnson, Chief engineer, Baldwin Locomotive
> Works, 1st (1942) or 2nd (1944) editions.  Available used.  This book is
> about the best single source for a description of all the design
> considerations.  It's technical, full of tables and formulas.  If you can
> only get one book, this is the one, IMO.  The NWHS archives has the first
> edition.
>
>
>
> 2. The Steam Locomotive in America, Alfred W. Bruce, Chief Engineer, Alco,
> 1952  Available used.  Considerably less technical than #1, but very
> worthwhile for a broad coverage of all American steam locos.  Archives has
> this one too.
>
>
>
> 3.  Railroad Engineering, W. W. Hay, 1953.  This book covers locomotives
> plus all engineering aspects of building and operating a railroad.  It's
> considered a generally accepted text on the subject.  Watch the price on
> this one, Used can be reasonable or sky-high.  Archives has this one, IIRC.
>
>
>
> Needless to day, there are many others, but these focus about the best of
> any without getting way too far into the nitty-gritty.  I have all these
> books here if you want to get into more detail.
>
>
>
> Jimmy Lisle has considerable knowledge of the ICS series which includes a
> lot of technical information regarding design, construction and operation
> of steam locos.  The archives has many of these books, but they have not
> been cataloged.  However, they are on the library shelves for reference.
> He can cover what's in them much better than I can.
>
>
>
> Dave Stephenson
>
>
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> *From:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *To:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 10, 2017 8:38 AM
> *Subject:* RE: J 602 booster engine
>
>
>
> Hi Dave:
>
>
>
> No hurry, and I appreciate your willingness to look as time permits.  I’ve
> never been afraid to buy a book or ten, so no worries on that count!
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> -Eric Bott
>
>
>
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> *Sent:* Thursday, March 09, 2017 18:44
> *To:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Cc:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Subject:* Re: J 602 booster engine
>
>
>
> Eric,
>
>
>
> I have some sources that may be helpful.  At them moment, my schedule is
> very fractured, but I'll try to get something together.  You're asking the
> same questions that I asked years ago and I found some good sources and
> answers.  Unfortunately they may be out-of-print-books but I'll see what I
> can do. The used book market is sometimes very useful, but don't pay
> collectors' prices (read HIGH) too readily..
>
>
>
> Dave Stephenson
>
>
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>
> *From:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *To:* NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 9, 2017 10:45 AM
> *Subject:* RE: J 602 booster engine
>
>
>
> Jimmy:
>
> Thank you for posting the link to the C-2 Booster treatise.  Very
> interesting!
>
> Does anybody know of any boiler design references or formula guidelines
> that the later US steam designers?  I'd be interested in N&W's especially,
> but any of Paul Kiefer's (NYC) or Altoona Works' (PRR) later design
> guidelines would be fascinating!  I'm specifically interested in these
> people's thinking about ratio of flue length to diameter, ratio of tube dia
> to flue dia, single-pass vs multi-pass superheater configurations,
> combustion chamber length considerations, etc.
>
> -Eric Bott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NW-Modeling-List [mailto:nw-modeling-list-bounces at nwhs.org] On
> Behalf Of NW Modeling List
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 16:18
> To: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
> Subject: Re: J 602 booster engine
>
> On 3/8/2017 12:58 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:
>
> > For modeling purposes, was there anything visible on 602 with regard
> > to the booster that I could effectively represent in HO scale on my
> > model of that locomotive?
>
> Brent,
>     Use the following links from the N&W Archives to find what you want
> about the booster on the Class J:
>
> http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=27626
>
> http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=27625
>
> http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/selectdocs.php?index=RS&id=182&Searchword=
> Booster
>
>     To learn more about the booster engine operated use the following
> link. It is a bvig file so wait for it to load:
>
> http://www.icsarchive.org/icsarchive-org/bb/ics_bb_506_
> section_2355_type_c-2_locomotive_booster.pdf
>
> Jimmy Lisle
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