. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . self, withevery possible opportunity of looking wellafter the machine, and having a fairknowledge of how to do so, according togeneral report; in fact, the engine wasallotted to me for that very reason; yetwith all the care I could take of it, leak-ing tubes were a continual source of an-noyance, and at the end of two yearsthere were various small cracks at thebase of the corrugations in the firebox. when seen, if he is placed in a difterentpart of the engine. I feel quite certain onthis poin
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . self, withevery possible opportunity of looking wellafter the machine, and having a fairknowledge of how to do so, according togeneral report; in fact, the engine wasallotted to me for that very reason; yetwith all the care I could take of it, leak-ing tubes were a continual source of an-noyance, and at the end of two yearsthere were various small cracks at thebase of the corrugations in the firebox. when seen, if he is placed in a difterentpart of the engine. I feel quite certain onthis point, that if the fireman was in closetouch with the engineman fewer seriousaccidents would take place. Now with us, working all single lineson electric staff or tablet system the fire-man takes staff or tablet, examines it, andhands to engineman, who places it in rackset apart for it, where it remains undertheir eyes right through section, wherefireman again exchanges it. The firemanalso calls out all fixed signals as seen, theengineman acknowledging this sometimesby hand, nod or word of mouth. With. MODEL OF ENGINE IN EIGIITHOUK PROCESSION IN AUSTR.\LI.\. Now with copper boxes and short stays,brass tubes with iron ferrules, such athing as a leak is practically unknown, andwe have engines which have never beenknown to leak under any kind of treat-ment and some boxes have been taken outof condemned boilers that were to all ap-pearance as good as new, after 20 yearsservice. It cannot be, surely, the differ-ence in the cost of material, as one seriousfailure when in service would cost anycompany more than this. Then what is it? Your design of valve and travel seemsto me to be faulty, for otherwise whyshould your engines be so heavy on fuel? Our Australian consolidion has 21 x 26in. cylinders, valve travel 5 ins., lap V/sin., lead % in. Baldwin consolidions 21 x26 ins. cylinders, sH ins. travel, J^-in. lap,2/32 in. lead. Consumption of fuel aver-age all over system. Australian consol
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