. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ious andamusing experiences, and if he profited by them he would have been a designerof locomotives and equipment long experience with defective equipmentis good schooling (and it is), the extraman who catches Uncle Georges en-gine ought to throw up his hat (or cap)and yell. There was a time not longsince when Uncle Georges signalwhistle played a continuous perform-ance for about four months. It neverceased whistling except when the signalline was empty. The only relief fromthe monoton
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ious andamusing experiences, and if he profited by them he would have been a designerof locomotives and equipment long experience with defective equipmentis good schooling (and it is), the extraman who catches Uncle Georges en-gine ought to throw up his hat (or cap)and yell. There was a time not longsince when Uncle Georges signalwhistle played a continuous perform-ance for about four months. It neverceased whistling except when the signalline was empty. The only relief fromthe monotony was when a car discharge Aleck. This time the whistle was do-ing its best, and the noise seemed tospur Uncle George to action, and hebegan to rap the reducing valve, but itdid no good, and the band (whistle)played on. They pulled out, the bandstill playing, and went into the spur,waiting for their train. Here theyfound their train was one hour George had given up the battlewith the refractory whistle, fireman suggested that he believedthe trouble to be in the signal valve,. FAST PASSENGER 2-2-0 ON THE BIG STICK & SQU.\RE DEAL RAILWAY valve was opened and the whistle wouldblow more robustly than usual. UncleGeorge seemed perfectly happy; nevercussed or got mad, like a man of lessexperimental knowledge might havedone. One day Uncle George caught anextra fireman who read, but who hadthe good sense to keep in his place andspeak only when there was a chance tobe helpful, and then gave advice in sucha nice, retiring way that Uncle Georgeeven could not consider him a smart and that if he (Uncle George) wouldnot be afraid to let him try, he thoughthe could fix it. Having consent, he gotdown, monkey wrench in hand, and,disconnecting the whistle pipe and re-moving signal valve nipple, he removedcorrosion, dirt, etc., from valve seat andvalve. He then connected up the parts,and the noise ceased, the continuousperformance of four months durationended. The story mig
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