. American engineer and railroad journal . SACK ELEVATION FIG. 9.—CAST IRON ASH PAN WITH SWINGING DOORS—LAKE SHORE S MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY. the same principle is in use on the Great Northern Railway. Thepan in this case has cast iron hoppers of the same general designas illustrated in Figure 1. In this arrangement the operating leveris fitted with a pawl working in a tooth quadrant, which it wouldseem to be almost impossible to accidently unlatch and which willalso permit the doors being brought to a tight bearing after thepins are worn or the connecting rods bent. The rod connectingthe op
. American engineer and railroad journal . SACK ELEVATION FIG. 9.—CAST IRON ASH PAN WITH SWINGING DOORS—LAKE SHORE S MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY. the same principle is in use on the Great Northern Railway. Thepan in this case has cast iron hoppers of the same general designas illustrated in Figure 1. In this arrangement the operating leveris fitted with a pawl working in a tooth quadrant, which it wouldseem to be almost impossible to accidently unlatch and which willalso permit the doors being brought to a tight bearing after thepins are worn or the connecting rods bent. The rod connectingthe operating lever with the equalizing link in this case is fittedwith a turnbuckle for adjusting its length to suit the notches inthe quadrant. The Central Railroad of New Jer-sey is using an ash pan with castiron hopper which has swingingdoors of this same general design,as is also the Lake Shore and Michi-gan Southern Railway, where the de-sign shown in Figure 9, applied toconsolidation locomotives, has beenfound to be very successful.
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