. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . k valve. I. F. , St. P., M. & O. .UllllllHl, Uis. Railroading in Africa.—Part II. Before the advent of the Beira Railway,everything was carried with Kaffir packa-musi trains past the fly belt. There arefour distinct belts of these noxious fliesbetween Fontesvilla and Chimoio, one inthe vicinity of Seventeen Miles, one at tion foreman and his gang up in treesnearly all one afternoon about two yearsago. I have seen from 500 to 1,000 buf-falo in a herd not more than 600 yardsfrom the track. Have of
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . k valve. I. F. , St. P., M. & O. .UllllllHl, Uis. Railroading in Africa.—Part II. Before the advent of the Beira Railway,everything was carried with Kaffir packa-musi trains past the fly belt. There arefour distinct belts of these noxious fliesbetween Fontesvilla and Chimoio, one inthe vicinity of Seventeen Miles, one at tion foreman and his gang up in treesnearly all one afternoon about two yearsago. I have seen from 500 to 1,000 buf-falo in a herd not more than 600 yardsfrom the track. Have often seen lionscrossing the track at night by the head-light, also in daytime. I have frequentlyshot antelope and buck, with very littledelay to the train. Guinea fowls andother feathered game are also have shot as many as eight in one shotfrom the engine, while moving, throughthe front cab window. Guinea fowls hap-pen on the track a great deal when thegrass is long. I always carried a rifle andshotgun on the engine. It was, in fact,the only way we had of getting fresh. obscuring vision of the engineer and fire-man ; also condensation from waste pipeflying back on links and other parts ofmachinery, stopping up oil ways and cov-ering over machinery with ice. cuttinglink and saddle pins and causing them tobreak off and damaging other parts ofmachinery. In above cut will be seen ahole is tapped into steam fountain orboiler head, a nipple and T put in a globevalve, connected on each side of the Tand run }^-inch pipes from globe valvesdown near footboard, and then put an-other T extending pipes under lagging tonear check valves, connecting them tobranch pipes. Bring other pipes from Tslocated near footboards back to rear ofcab, having a globe valve located in thesepipes. Attach hose at rear end for a it will be seen that these heaterscan be put on or shut off at will of en-gineer while running, doing away withsteam flying around engine, getting allwaste steam
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