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Identify the type of locomotive from the given figure.

(a) Inside cylinder

(b) Outside cylinder

(c) Top cylinder

(d) Bottom cylinder

This question was posed to me during an internship interview.

This key question is from Partial Balancing of Locomotives topic in portion Balancing of Reciprocating Masses of Machine Dynamics

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The correct option is (b) Outside cylinder

The explanation is: The given figure is of an outside cylinder locomotive, In an outside cylinder locomotive, the two cylinders are on the either side of the two driving wheels at an angle of 90 degrees to each other.

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