. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nt make steam for a barbershop. and waste, and get the biggest if they hate one another, all they lookfor is the place to unload, and the com-pany has got to stand the loss of coal, oil,etc. Think of this and see if it is only thefireman. Engineers are all right in theirway, but some dont weigh enough. A. L. ECKHART. Bloomington, III. Finding the Meeting Point. The question sometimes comes up of themeeting point of two trains which aremoving at different speeds. Some for-midable formulas with
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nt make steam for a barbershop. and waste, and get the biggest if they hate one another, all they lookfor is the place to unload, and the com-pany has got to stand the loss of coal, oil,etc. Think of this and see if it is only thefireman. Engineers are all right in theirway, but some dont weigh enough. A. L. ECKHART. Bloomington, III. Finding the Meeting Point. The question sometimes comes up of themeeting point of two trains which aremoving at different speeds. Some for-midable formulas with x, y, ss and otherfixings which paralyze an engineer orshop man have been worked out for this,but in reality the question can be readilysolved by anyone who can add, multiplyand divide. After studying over a formula of thiskind for several minutes, I was sur-prised to find how simple the questionreally was. While in actual service this ispractically never required, it may pay totry it and see how easy it is. Suppose that two trains A and B startfrom stations 100 miles apart. A runs 50. SELLERS 1876 INJECTOR. Firemans View of Smokeless Firing. I have been a reader of your paper fortwelve or thirteen years, and find thateverjone is trying to make a good fire-man and save coal and oil,- do his workneatly and fire the engine without black When we are running along the engi-neer will drop her in 12 or 15 inches fora train length and then pull her back into 6 inches. Your fire may be in goodshape for lever in 6 inches, but when 12or 15 inches take place, big holes are cutin the fire and the steam goes. You willwork and get the fire in shape again andsteam up. Up she comes in 6 inches andoff goes the pop. The engineer says, Youhave always got her popping or else nosteam. Its the fireman. He wastes thecoal and oil, fills the boilers too full ofwater. That uses up valve oil and cutsthe valves and makes all the black smoke. I have fired now eleven years, haveworked as a machinist thirte
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