. Railway master mechanic . hich he succeeded a few days later), andwas looking over the engines in the roundhouse whenAndy Vauclain, who had charge of all the freightengines, rushed in and ordered a locomotive to getout in a hurry to help clear up a wreck just west ofAltoona. No. 52, a •camel, was ready for the road,but there was no engineer in sight, and Vauclainasked Sellers, who was then an experienced enginerunner, if he would not take it out. Sellers had toomuch pride to suggest that he had never run a camel,and immediately went to the front end and climbedinto the cab. away up on the po
. Railway master mechanic . hich he succeeded a few days later), andwas looking over the engines in the roundhouse whenAndy Vauclain, who had charge of all the freightengines, rushed in and ordered a locomotive to getout in a hurry to help clear up a wreck just west ofAltoona. No. 52, a •camel, was ready for the road,but there was no engineer in sight, and Vauclainasked Sellers, who was then an experienced enginerunner, if he would not take it out. Sellers had toomuch pride to suggest that he had never run a camel,and immediately went to the front end and climbedinto the cab. away up on the poop deck. He says thathe began to sweat as soon as he looked around. Tostart one of those machines was almost as much of anoperation as to get a full rigged ship under way. Theengines valves were operated by the old fashionedhooks, and he had first to take a long and heavystarting bar, 13 ft. long, get one end of it down intothe socket of the rocker and then work it to throwthe cams until the hook caught on. (The socket is. IHE LAST OF HE CAMELS. 2. A fire-box having a downwardly and rearwardlyinclined top. 3. A dome and an engineers house placed on topof the boiler close to the forward end. space on its rearside, which was closed by doors, so as to expose itsentire area when required. t). The abandonment of crown sheet stay bars, andthe substitution of stay bolts connecting the crownsheet with the outer shell. 7. The use of a half-stroke cam as a means of ef-fecting cut-ofT. All these engines were substantially of the samepattern, except as to the fire-box, of which there , the short, medium and long; the latterwlii !i i- 1) Iti the illustration, having as gieataI I ■ - ■ in. and a width of 4 ft. The grate- I iiiimclasswas()x3ift.,givingthethen -1 sq. ft. The boiler, of 5-l() iron, 1 -::. .:. The cylinders, (except in afew of the (Mrliir engines, which were only 17 in.)were 19 in. in diameter, and 22 in. stroke, and the di-amete
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