. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The boiler is of the standard locomotivetype, made entirely of homogeneous is provided with a large fire-box andample heating surface in the flues. Theboiler is made with a wagon top to pro-vide large steam room and to keep thetubes and crown-sheet submerged whenon grades. The smoke-box at the frontis so arranged that all the tubes are readilyaccessible for cleaning. The crown sheetis inclined downward at the rear to insurebeing submerged when on grades, and isfitted with safety fusible plugs. T
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . The boiler is of the standard locomotivetype, made entirely of homogeneous is provided with a large fire-box andample heating surface in the flues. Theboiler is made with a wagon top to pro-vide large steam room and to keep thetubes and crown-sheet submerged whenon grades. The smoke-box at the frontis so arranged that all the tubes are readilyaccessible for cleaning. The crown sheetis inclined downward at the rear to insurebeing submerged when on grades, and isfitted with safety fusible plugs. The fronthead is arranged with two hand wash-plates. One is located suitably for thecrown sheet, two at the bottom of the fire-box. Two blow-off cocks are also situatedthere. The valves are balanced and operatedby a pair of hardened links. Instead ofusing four eccentric straps and eccentrics,but two heavy straps are used, thus verymuch simplifying the valve gear. Afterproperly adjusting the valve, all parts arekeyed so they cannot be deranged afterleaving the works. The eccentric straps. TKUCK OF UEISLEIt LOCOMOTIVE. British Dining Cars. We received from Mr. A. J. Chisholmthe following letter after our correspon-dence columns were printed: The paragraph in your issue of Oc-tober, 1897, respecting these magnificentvehicles, would lead your readers to sup-pose that they were first built in this coun-try by the Midland Railway is not the case—in fact, the Company built a dining saloonat Doncaster long before the Midlandmanagement had even thought of follow-ing their leader in this respect. The GreatNorthern car, however, was built for theconvenience of first-class passengers. Turning, however, to the introductionof third-class dining cars, it is a well-known fact that the idea first originatedon the North Eastern system. The Mid- ber sixteen hours. Among 18,844 en-gine-drivers and stokers, nearly 3,000work thirteen hours a day, 2,743 four-teen hours, 1
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