. American engineer and railroad journal . Cents. Cents. 1898 1890 1891 1892 9.:!3 .945 189:! .900 1S94 .845 1X95 .726 1896 .647 1S97 .618 1898 .618 In 1889 there were 85 locomotives on the road, 71 of whichwere in service and using bituminous coal, except in the caseof three engines which were using lump anthracite. At pres-ent the equipment includes 133 engines, with 110 in service,G7 of which have wide fireboxes burning anthracite coal. A new proce^s for making briquettes o
. American engineer and railroad journal . Cents. Cents. 1898 1890 1891 1892 9.:!3 .945 189:! .900 1S94 .845 1X95 .726 1896 .647 1S97 .618 1898 .618 In 1889 there were 85 locomotives on the road, 71 of whichwere in service and using bituminous coal, except in the caseof three engines which were using lump anthracite. At pres-ent the equipment includes 133 engines, with 110 in service,G7 of which have wide fireboxes burning anthracite coal. A new proce^s for making briquettes of petroleum refusehas been introduced in Germany. In this process aljout 10per cent, of soda lye. with 10 per cent, of any other kind offatty matter—tallow, for instance—is heated in a boiler, and90 parts of petroleum refuse is added to the heated mixture is then heated, under constant stirring, for Fig. 1. Anthracite Coal Burning—New York, Ontario & Western G. W. West, Superintendent of Molirc Fig 4. The statements are not in terms of ton miles, but the figuresappear to be comparable. The arrangement of grates adopted is shown in Fig. 1. shows the standard grate, and Figs. 3 and 4 present sectionsof the fire boxes, which are of the Wootten type, used with thisfuel. The arrangement of grates has been made a standard on theroad, and Fig. 1 shows it to be a combination of shaking grates,stationary grates and water bars. The shaking grates are infour sections, divided by longitudinal and cross t>earers. Thestandard grate shown in Fig. 2 is used in all sizes of fire boxes. Mr. West, after trying a number of different combinations ofgrates and water bars, has found the one illustrated to be themost satisfactory. He first tried shaking grates, which werethe full width of the fire box, but on account of the ash pans, about an hour, care being taken to prevent the temperaturereaching the l>oiling point of petroleum. In this incipien
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