. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ew Zealand engine in your paper, andas I like to see this part of the worldrepresented. I enclose a photo of a traincrew at Mangaonoho. some 140 miles fromWellington. The engine is class F, cylinders ioj4X 18 inches, six-coupled wheels 36 inchesin diameter, heating surface 485 squarefeet, and weighs ipj/j tons in working or-der. The one represented carries a pres-sure of 160 pounds per square inch. Theseengines are very good steamers and pull bituminous coal, and the patch soon fire-checks from patch bol
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ew Zealand engine in your paper, andas I like to see this part of the worldrepresented. I enclose a photo of a traincrew at Mangaonoho. some 140 miles fromWellington. The engine is class F, cylinders ioj4X 18 inches, six-coupled wheels 36 inchesin diameter, heating surface 485 squarefeet, and weighs ipj/j tons in working or-der. The one represented carries a pres-sure of 160 pounds per square inch. Theseengines are very good steamers and pull bituminous coal, and the patch soon fire-checks from patch bolts to edge of seam,causing leaks. My idea is that the intenseheat of the fire would not come in directcontact with the seam on account of thistube, and the tube would not burn out, aswater would circulate through it. I thinkit is customary to put up castings some-times to protect patch seams, which soonburn out, hence my desire to put in thewater tube as a protection. I will casually say that I have been aconstant reader of your magazine sinceits first issue, and have obtained valuable. .\ NEW ZEAL.^ND LOCOMOTIVE. a good load. The person on left is , next to him D. Hood, sparedriver. The cleaner is the center figure,and standing next to him is A. Morse,guard. The one on the extreme right isT. Campbell, driver in charge. A. P. GODBER. Pctone, Neiv Zealand. Novel Method of Protecting a PatchSeam in Firebox. Will you kindly give me your advice onthe practicability of protecting the seamon a patch in firebox of a locomotive asdescribed below? I have never had anyexperience in a case of this kind, and,knowing that your readers have had allkinds of experience, I thought perhapsyou could enlighten me on the subject. I propose to put in a 2 or 3-inch tubeextending from front to back sheet of fire-box, close to and in front of a patch seamwhich extends full length of box and aboutiS inches above grate bars. We burn information from its pages. Hoping youwill give me the desired
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