. The Street railway journal . s of oils, some good, some no good. Junk, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 359 while some cups feed small drops, some large. vSome daysour large eugine doing at times 400 h. p. will run on lessthan two drops a minute; again it will want a good touchof the pump after a long hard pull when a good share ofthe water in the boilers has gone through the cylinder asa result of poorly arranged piping. But I, for one, amtired of paying for such information. Speaking of lubricators, we have one of the larger engine Water evaporated per pound of coal lbs. Coal consumed p
. The Street railway journal . s of oils, some good, some no good. Junk, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 359 while some cups feed small drops, some large. vSome daysour large eugine doing at times 400 h. p. will run on lessthan two drops a minute; again it will want a good touchof the pump after a long hard pull when a good share ofthe water in the boilers has gone through the cylinder asa result of poorly arranged piping. But I, for one, amtired of paying for such information. Speaking of lubricators, we have one of the larger engine Water evaporated per pound of coal lbs. Coal consumed per I. H. P. hour lbs. Water consumed per I. H. P. hour lbs. Average daily run 24 hrs. Total stops for the month none Pounds of coal per motor car mile Pounds of water per motor car mile The accompanying curve shows the average variationof load at the power station dttring the day, the figures be-ing obtained from half hourly read-ings covering the five months end-ing Apr. 30, i8q6. P/dn of both ///7ft3. ^5. Cheap Fuel in the West. Anderson Electric vStreetRailway Company. Anderson, Ind., May 11, Street Railway Journal : We use the valvoline oil forour engines, dynamos and othermachinery, made by Leonard &Ellis. We have a contract where-Ijy our fuel (natural gas) is fur-nished us free of cost and wetherefore have no coal truly,Ellis C. Carpenter, Sec. or a No. 5 Seibert htbricator, and the engine room beingvery cool I found as winter came on there was troubleahead to keep the lubricator feeding, using necessarily avery heavy oil. The Seibert Compan^^ recommended as aremedy that I use a lighter oil. That was entirely out ofthe question. The engine btiilders sitggested covering thesyphon and pipes, and I went further and covered the en-tire cup with asbestos. Still it was too cool. Procuring some small lead pipe we coiled it aroitndthe cup, tapped the steam pipe, allowing just enough steamto flow through coil to keep the cup hot, and
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