. Railroad digest . ortedfor fuel. With some fifty-eight engines equipped, the meansof storage and supply must necessarily be somewhat con-siderable, and the arrangements at Stratford for this pur-pose, which are the outcome of considerable experience, arethe most complete in Great Britain. Experimental Arch in Italian Locomotive The Practical Engineer (Manchester). March 15, 1901, p. locomotive recently constructed for mountain service inItaly was fitted with an arch, which is arranged somewhaton the principle now being experimented upon in thiscountry. Beneath the barrel of the boiler
. Railroad digest . ortedfor fuel. With some fifty-eight engines equipped, the meansof storage and supply must necessarily be somewhat con-siderable, and the arrangements at Stratford for this pur-pose, which are the outcome of considerable experience, arethe most complete in Great Britain. Experimental Arch in Italian Locomotive The Practical Engineer (Manchester). March 15, 1901, p. locomotive recently constructed for mountain service inItaly was fitted with an arch, which is arranged somewhaton the principle now being experimented upon in thiscountry. Beneath the barrel of the boiler a steam jet di-rected into a funnel induces a current of air in small end of the funnel guides the air into a box pipe,which passes under the mud ring and up between the tubesheet and the arch to the v>pper forward edge of the this point it spreads out to distribute the current of airthrough a series of tubes laid on top of the arch. In pass-ing thus far through the arch tubes, and finally emerging. is given of one of a type of single-driver bogie express loco-motives, built last year for working a special fast serviceof passenger trains between London and Cromer. The re-sult of the early experiments showed that for the success-ful burning of liquid fuel it was necessary to atomize theliquid, and to supply every atom with a sufficient quan-tity of oxygen for its own perfect combustion, and that toattain this end, the supply of air, steam and liquid fuelmust each be reguable. Mr. Holden tells us he has givenconsiderable attention to the action of the steam used forspraying the fuel, and, of course, introduced it into the fire-box. Extravagant claims, he says, have been made thatthis injected steam, besides serving all its natural me-chanical functions as a spraying agent, also becomes itselfan auxiliary source of heat, the explanation offered beingthat when steam comes into contact with the intensely-heated fuel in the firebox it is decomposed into oxygen andhy
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