. The Locomotive. n, Goodrich & Wickham. He retired from business in1914, but remained in robust health until almost the day of his fact, having occasion to stop at the office just three or four daysprevious, he was complimented upon his appearance and activity fora man over 80 years of age. His sudden death was, therefore, ashock to his manv friends. An illustration of the damagedone by water hammer. In theplant where this accident hap-pened, the fires had been bankedfor over the week-end, but onSunday morning there was a sud-den call for steam. The boilerswere rapidly forced to meet
. The Locomotive. n, Goodrich & Wickham. He retired from business in1914, but remained in robust health until almost the day of his fact, having occasion to stop at the office just three or four daysprevious, he was complimented upon his appearance and activity fora man over 80 years of age. His sudden death was, therefore, ashock to his manv friends. An illustration of the damagedone by water hammer. In theplant where this accident hap-pened, the fires had been bankedfor over the week-end, but onSunday morning there was a sud-den call for steam. The boilerswere rapidly forced to meet thedemand and, while doing this,water hammer developed in themain steam header. Three suc-cessive blows were delivered uponone of the stop valves whichfinally gave way as shown in theillustration. Fortunately, no onewas injured by the accident. Ttwas said the boiler on which theaccident occurred was carrying ahigh water level and that the en-gineer was blowing down to over-come this when the rupture 1924.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. 119 p 3 •s w c 3 n GO Ph o z U. ^^ o O CO GO to en o -J b W n ft w X LU P Pi! PQ o o H cc fc t ) LU < o __i — w h o 00 at o a « H Lx O Pm^ £> : *—I ? o Pho. .<up-l d I 5 •§ Ja O S c rt£_rCrt1UV(/) C caDO •gOT i> 3> o scDD 3 2o E .9-c; ooUPiU^PSKUP^DSuco 3 - ^-3 ^ . c a 3 3 UhOcoOQO-i ffiUhU 5 S pajnfuj P3II!X
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