. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . posed of mechanical menconnected with railways, we find that oneof the principal topics of discussion to bethe boiler of the locomotive. This, ofcourse, occasions no surprise, as we areall aware that without the boiler the loco-motive would be useless. Given a goodtype of boiler making plenty of steam, thecondition of the machinery need cause butlittle anxiety so long as it will continueto hold together, and if the valves andcylinder packings are not blowing toobadly, the engine will pull car
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . posed of mechanical menconnected with railways, we find that oneof the principal topics of discussion to bethe boiler of the locomotive. This, ofcourse, occasions no surprise, as we areall aware that without the boiler the loco-motive would be useless. Given a goodtype of boiler making plenty of steam, thecondition of the machinery need cause butlittle anxiety so long as it will continueto hold together, and if the valves andcylinder packings are not blowing toobadly, the engine will pull cars. But givenan engine with first class machinery anda poor, leaking boiler, and consequently,little steam, the condition of the machin-ery is of but little aid in getting a trainover the road; therefore, the first consid-eration is the boiler and its parts. The parts of a locomotive boiler thatare most apt to fail, and when failing, aremost detrimental, are flues and stay bolts,the principal item being flues. The fail-ure or leakage of flues obtains consider-ably more during the winter than during. OYFRLAND LIMITED ON THE THE MISSOURI. forward was contained in the paper onThe Care of. Boilers, by Mr. M. , and read before the Western Rail-way Club in November, 1905. Mr. Wellsclaimed that boiler leakage was due al-most entirely to the variation in the tem-perature in the boiler, due to injectingfeed water when the boiler was at rest,or in other words, when the water in theboiler was not in circulation. As statedabove, Mr. Wells theory was very plaus-ible, and he brought out forcibly manyfacts in connection with the difference inthe temperature of the various strata of water in the boiler to prove his theories;and while no doubt there is considerablemerit in his arguments, we are as yet farfrom being convinced that this differencein temperature is the real cause of leak-age, or, in fact, that it has any materialbearing on the subject. Whenever we come in contact
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