. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nty year% ago, the manag- ij m,!cWneTof ul^rSdV and^tlie melh- .. The company had do moneyods of operating the same had reachedperfection, and thai no change could be1 spoiling something. TheIt crysiallired was found rul-■, Chapman was appointed in for repairs per mile run Bar- than the simple engines. The saving of .n sunennleudent of ihe road, emphat- fuel alone was computed to be a :,i;oppo«<l to compound locomotives year, nearly enough to pay the wages of ,r/h,.f«llnwinEr expressed reasons:
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nty year% ago, the manag- ij m,!cWneTof ul^rSdV and^tlie melh- .. The company had do moneyods of operating the same had reachedperfection, and thai no change could be1 spoiling something. TheIt crysiallired was found rul-■, Chapman was appointed in for repairs per mile run Bar- than the simple engines. The saving of .n sunennleudent of ihe road, emphat- fuel alone was computed to be a :,i;oppo«<l to compound locomotives year, nearly enough to pay the wages of ,r/h,.f«llnwinEr expressed reasons: engineers and firemen. ,. „„ ;pend The figures produced from tne com- .pehmenting. ^TreCo^eIs^fti^;^^^^^^ ,. They wanted locomotives to earn l^^^^^^^^l^^Xlrno^^es was finally;cepted as the true one. The company a valuable pointer in the sketchesherewith, which illustrates the meilployed to overcome this trouble byMechanic D. Brown, of the D., I Mr. Brown found they were havingrouble in the place indicated. There was, tpn,1pnrv for (he flue sheet and front doited lines in upper. -hand cut, pro- the outside of throat-sheet showed;nce of being pulled in. there being letting i included thai long flat sur-1 row of stay-bolU. inand the lower row oftubes, that is practically without stays-was the cause of the trouble. In some new fireboxes this trouble wascured in a very siftple manner, as shownin the richt upper sketch,The flange of the front firebox sheet wasthree inches longer than ne-isary for the seam, and extended backThis was drilledwith a row of holes, and fork end braceswere carried from it well ahead to thesecond and third course sheets of the barrelof the boiler. This stays the weak spotvery nicely, and makes a neat, workman-like job. and is not liable to collect scaleand mud at a dangerous place as are short,rigid braces tapped and riveted into the« sheet and faslened to the firstahead. This plan seems to havethings to recommend it and nothing The thing 1 of the
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