. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ETCHING OP IRON AXLE. Smokestack top above rail—14 feet 10inches. Boiler supplied by two Sellers classN improved injectors. Water capacity—Twin tanks under bodyof car—700 U. S. gallons each. Engine equipped with one 16-inch starheadlight, magnesia sectional coveringon boiler, two 2/<-inch Crosby side out-let safety valves. Westinghouse automaticair brake on drivers and car truck; oneGollmar bell ringer. i S i An Object Lesson in Iron Axles. The etchings shown in this connectionare from Master Mechanic
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ETCHING OP IRON AXLE. Smokestack top above rail—14 feet 10inches. Boiler supplied by two Sellers classN improved injectors. Water capacity—Twin tanks under bodyof car—700 U. S. gallons each. Engine equipped with one 16-inch starheadlight, magnesia sectional coveringon boiler, two 2/<-inch Crosby side out-let safety valves. Westinghouse automaticair brake on drivers and car truck; oneGollmar bell ringer. i S i An Object Lesson in Iron Axles. The etchings shown in this connectionare from Master Mechanic John Bean, ofthe Cleveland, Canton & Southern Rail-road, taken from two car axles which re-cently failed on his line. Their structureis so plainly shown that comment can addnothing to the story of the weakness theytell. Etchings serve an admirable pur-pose in dragging to light the lack ofhomogeneity of metal, and had this testbeen put to coupons cut from the forg-ings. there is a strong probability thatthey never would have been turned andmounted. If iron axles must be used,
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