. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . IxjiliT liracing throuf,h()Ut is the AmericanLocomotive tompaiiys weldless tyix-, wliidi providesfor a maximum strenj^th with minimum weij^ht. Theboiler is secured to the frames at the fireliox witli the ex-pansion |>lates rather than with cast steel furnace bearershaving the ordinary sliding shoe. This avoids the troubleusually experienced with this latter type of furnace The boiler contains 261 tubes 2,4 inches in diameter the throat sheet and increased to six in the bac
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . IxjiliT liracing throuf,h()Ut is the AmericanLocomotive tompaiiys weldless tyix-, wliidi providesfor a maximum strenj^th with minimum weij^ht. Theboiler is secured to the frames at the fireliox witli the ex-pansion |>lates rather than with cast steel furnace bearershaving the ordinary sliding shoe. This avoids the troubleusually experienced with this latter type of furnace The boiler contains 261 tubes 2,4 inches in diameter the throat sheet and increased to six in the back head, be-sides being carried, in a single row alxiut the door open-ing. The back head is also fitted with two rows of flexiblestays at each side, extending from the crownshcet to thefoundation ring. .Attention is called thus extensively to the method slaying, l)ecause of the great dimensions of thefirebo.\ and combustion chamber and the long tul)es thatare used. The distance from the back head to the backtul)esheei is 15 feet 3J4 inches to which must be added ruKermeironintosutcfrodid. *%;= 4- FLEXIBLE STAYBOLTSi^WLLOV Firebox of Three-Cylinder Locomotive of the Southern Pacific Showing Method of Staying Employed and 30 flues oi Syi inches diameter for the superheaterunits. The Tate flexible staybolt is used extensively through-out the firebox and combustion chaml)er. The distribu-tion ill the firelK)x includes the six upper horizontal rowswith a filling in of the back upper corner and a stragglingdown to the foundation ring in the two back rows. Atthe front there is another slight filling in of the uppercorner with two rows back of the combustion chamberthat extend down to the foundation ring. ITie sides and bottom of the combustion chamber arestayed with a complete installation of the Tate flexiblebolts, but the top, which is flattened and conforms ingeneral contour to that of the crownsheet is stayed bythe ordinary rigid bolt, except for the four front rows,whic
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